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Vernacchio explained that sex as baseball implies that it’s a game; that one party is the aggressor (almost always the boy), while the other is defending herself; that there is a strict order of play, and you can’t stop until you finish. “If you’re playing baseball,” he elaborated, “you can’t just say, ‘I’m really happy…
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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in ecology in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, with exciting new conceptual innovations and critically reflective returns to the work of earlier ecological studies. If ecological thought, in its most broad definition, investigates the interrelations and interactions of entities with one another, then the concept and…
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Multimedia/Artwork O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies accepts artwork and mixed media projects on a rolling submissions basis. Please send a one-page proposal or description of your work, including any relevant portfolio samples, to the editors. Requests for completed works will be issued upon acceptance of a proposal. Please note that acceptance of a proposal…
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Antoine Wilson’s Notes on “Hack”
lareviewofbooks: The Dial is an occasional column that will sometimes serve as my soapbox, but more often feature guests whose work is either closely personal, experimental, or otherwise off our usual diet of book reviews and review essays. H.L. Mencken once said that “a professor must have a theory, as a dog must have fleas,”…
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newyorker: Kelefa Sanneh’s Perfect Cup of Coffee In this week’s Food Issue, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Aida Batlle, “a fifth-generation coffee farmer and a first-generation coffee celebrity.” Sanneh maintains that “brewing a proper cup of coffee is a lot harder than uncorking a bottle of wine and a lot easier than cooking dinner.” Which leads…
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On the few recent occasions that I have dragged myself to a friend’s house, or vice versa, we spend most of the time staring at our smart phones and tablets. What exactly is the benefit of physical proximity in that scenario? “Check out this funny tweet I just sent” doesn’t really count as conversation, does…