Review
Eschatology on the Internet: The Nocilla Trilogy
In 2010 scientists from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, conducted an experiment with oat flakes, arranged to mimic the cities...
Lucia Berlin: Evening in Paradise and Welcome Home
Schoolteacher, dressmaker, cleaning woman, ER clerk, switchboard operator, oral historian: these were a few of the jobs that occupied Lucia...
Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt
Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt defines the concept of iconoclasm as “the intentional damage to and destruction of culturally...
Chernobyl
“What is the cost of lies?” HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl opens with this dark rumination of dying Soviet chemist Valery Legasav’s....
Avantika Bawa: APEX and Coliseum
Avantika Bawa’s APEX and Coliseum examine a Portland, OR landmark that stirs halcyon memories among several generations of architecture and...
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It
In a political landscape where truth can feel fluid at best and arbitrary at worst, it seems apt that archival...
Rachel Rampleman: Oh! You Pretty Things
On the day I visited Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, to see Rachel Rampleman’s mid-career survey, Oh! You Pretty...
Order & Chaos
In ancient times, when philosophy informed the sciences and our knowledge of the brain was speculative or mythological, the anatomical...
Christine Sun Kim: Too Much Future
Nina Sun Eidsheim’s 2015 text Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice sits at the fore of recent scholarly...
Jesse Darling: The Ballad of Saint Jerome
In Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, artist and activist Sunaura Taylor speaks from her own experiences toward a...