Ailing Empire Blues
August 18, 2022
Can America avoid Britain’s post-imperial fate of never-ending culture war?
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Digital Deconversion
August 17, 2022
Becoming an ex-Jehovah’s Witness, online.
Untitled Poems III & IV
III.
People are asses. I hang bells from their necks so they can sing to me while I recline on a rock.
People are fools. I’ll hang them up in the wardrobe like winter clothes.
May’s barley is about to ripen. Each stalk has lined up its seeds in orderly fashion so ...
The Sounds of Internment
August 16, 2022
“Smash Internment and Injustice!” turns fifty.
Oozing Class
August 15, 2022
On the border-crossing German novelist Wolfgang Hilbig.
Fresh Hell
August 12, 2022
Your Friends in Tech
When the Supreme Court incinerated its vestigial claims to legitimacy earlier this summer with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, certain quarters of the internet resounded with inexplicable optimism about all the wondrous ways in which Big Tech would come ...
His Later Life and Works
Short fiction by Reid Sharpless.
Public Safety Dance
August 11, 2022
Public “safety” for whom?
Poxed and Abandoned
August 10, 2022
On the global response to the monkeypox outbreak.
Flooding in the Sacrifice Zone
August 09, 2022
Surveying the wreckage in flooded-out Eastern Kentucky.
Excavating the Internet
August 08, 2022
Studying the internet’s pre-history is interesting—but can it help us in the present?
Fresh Hell
August 05, 2022
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Zombie
Death is not the end, nor is disability, injury, or the need to visit the bathroom any excuse to falter in your labor if you happen to be an Amazon warehouse employee. Where there is profit, there is life. In a grim preview of how our ...