“In Occupying the Prairie: Tensions Rise as Tribes Move to Block a Pipeline by Jack Healy, New York Times, Aug. 23, 2016 we see and hear about Indians in paint […]

You know how hard it is sometimes just to walk on the streets downtown, how everything enters you the way the scientists describe it—photons streaming through bodies, caroming off the […]

http://pipilottirist.net/

“(The rule: no editing, no looking back. The micro-essay must be written straight into the blog without hesitation, and with a feeling in the middle of the body that comes […]

via http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2016/08/theyre-trying-to-wash-us-away.html

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/MITP_Chun.mp3

recently I’ve been struck again by how people keep confusing the contingency/constructiveness of human affairs (human-being) with a magical thinking of endless potential/possibilities/plasticity, but even in the inventing of novel […]

see also http://www.juancole.com/2016/08/longstanding-electricity-crisis.html

thanks to CS for raising the association

Welcome to Hollywood Forest: The Story of “the little Irish wood that could”

https://files.lsecities.net/files/2016/08/Tania-Bruguera-and-Saskia-Sassen-In-Conversation.mp3

https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Ashbery/LOC/Ashbery-John_Charles-Simic_Reading-and-Discussion_08.mp3

“White women between 25 and 55 have been dying at accelerating rates over the past decade, a spike in mortality not seen since the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s. […]

“As we walk through the world, particularly a city, we are always negotiating a bevy of bodies and forces — faces, smells, cars, sirens, pigeons, driveways, street side gardens, trees, […]

for myself psychedelics were just a lived experience of the ways in which our straight consciousnesses are to a large degree chemical compositions, and having seen first hand that there […]