Claire L. Evans
The Return of 'OMNI'
How my obsession turned into a dive into the magazine's archives, which turned into a full-blown resurrection.
A Eulogy for Skeuomorphism
With its new OS, Apple is finally killing those leather bound calendars, wooden bookshelves, and tech's most quietly controversial design element. But skeuomorphism deserves a proper sendoff.
OMNI: The Forgotten History of The Best Science Magazine That Ever Was
The covers of Omni Magazine tempted me with airbrushed cosmic landscapes and headlines like, "Missing Time: A New Look at Alien Abductions" and "Riding Comets to the Stars." I brought a stack home. The love affair was instantaneous.
'Webcam Venus' Turned Sexcam Performers into High-Art n00dz
Artists Pablo Garcia and Addie Wagenknecht asked sexcam performers to replicate poses from iconic works of Western art.
Your Body Is a Spaceship: A Cyborg History
A spacesuit is a spaceship for one. Bridging fashion, architecture, and engineering, it's a portable environment, a single garment built to protect human beings from the void.
The Great American Hack: David Foster Wallace and Aaron Swartz
Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss.
How to Get High in the Future: A Pharmacopeia of Speculative Drugs
Inventing drugs is a tradition that dates back to Homer. From the Odyssey and its lotus-eaters to the psychotropic inventions of the substance-addled Philip K. Dick, from the ambrosia and manna of mythology to the psychedelic Spice of the desert planet...
Trevor Paglen Made a Time Capsule to Outlast Earth
Paglen compiled a list of 100 images culled from human history and etched them onto an ultra-archival silicon disc.
Panopticon In Reverse: Steve Mann Is Fighting for Your Cyborg Rights
Last month, Dr. Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto who has been living as a cyborg for his entire adult life, was attacked by employees at a Parisian McDonald’s.