Contact to Analog + Sound Recording | Nico Doreste
::: Editor’s note: Contact to Analog originally appeared in Issue No. 3 under the special section Re:Analog. Here is a bit more about Re:Analog:...
Jerry Saltz: The First & Greatest Post-Internet Troll-Critic of Them All
It’s March 31, 2014, #JerrySaltz is #trending and I am not sure you get the magnitude of this moment. Saltz is an art critic. Who...
God in the Machine
My number one biggest fear is someone else being able to read my mind, but I’d read someone else’s mind in a heartbeat. Scratch...
Waffle fries and Guinness: The Politics of Consumption | Emily Miller
I live in Boston where I have three modes of transportation: I primarily walk, but I also bike and drive. When I first moved...
I Hate Ten Ways
Some lists are great. I’m looking at you, To-Do Lists and Grocery Lists. Couldn’t get by without ya! Without a grocery list, I’d come...
Stop the track, lemme state facts: Nightlife as Art Form
Madison Moore, culture maven extraordinarre, brings his course Nightlight as Art Form to the University of Richmond for the second time. And, really, what...
You Spin Me Right ‘Round
The little aliens from Independence Day have always fascinated me. They’re the Russian stacking dolls of aliens. At first blush, they seem like tall,...
Making History with “Twitch Plays Pokémon”
After 390 hours of sometimes frustrating game play, over 100,000 people who were simultaneously playing the traditionally single player game Pokémon Red managed to...
Funeral for a Phone
Lemme take you to the suburbs right outside Washington, DC, circa 2004. This is the advent of the cell phone. Not in general. Not...
Facebook’s Gender Project: The Customizable “Other” | Emily Miller
Folks in the United States who are drafting up their Facebook personas now have three categories from which to choose if they opt to...