Volume 17 Τεύχος 9
Paul Virilio
Cultural theorist Paul Virilio has been repeating essentially the same thing over and over for the past 30 years. Maybe it’s time for everybody to start listening to him.
Doomsday Scenarios, Considered
Mark Reid is senior radio astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Archival Catastrophes
In my day job, I work as an archival-image researcher. I always keep an eye out for things that I think typify the American experience, like banjo players, crazy preachers, hobos, and disasters.
The Children Of Kampiringisa
Kampiringisa, Uganda’s only juvenile-detention facility, is not only a prison; it also doubles as temporary housing for Uganda’s hundreds of homeless minors.
Sisters of Mercy and the Temple of Love
Mala and Belavva are best friends and members of an ancient Hindu cult of prostitution.
The Mommy X-Perience
Strange things happen to a woman’s vagina after a human slides out of it, aside from the obvious stretching and tearing.
Employees Of The Month
Jim Shepard is to blame for six novels and four story collections, including You Think That’s Bad, coming out in March 2011 from Knopf.
End Permian Extinction
Charles Darwin didn’t believe in catastrophe. The whole idea struck him as implausible, a product of the sort of antiquated thinking that mixed science and religion, Noah’s flood and the ice ages.