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Grand Canyon
From space, a ragged scar. Someone’s named it beautiful — Most Beautiful — and its history’s clear, though the picture’s distant. Five hundred miles away, the moon is a hatchet of silver, prepared to slip into whatever earth needs cutting. Five hundred miles away, the stars are locked in dark, are breaking with us as […]
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Acts of Elision
You say we’re older. The future’s no joke. Some days are sufficient in their dull, real hurt, while others are enough to make us wonder at every semblance glancing out from between the countless trees in this adumbrated forest. How many acts of elision does it take to figure a light? The way you hold […]
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June
Beauty’s too easy when routine bites hard; the ocean’s a fucking bore. Where’s that Winterlike light when it’s wanted, light promising only snow. – No reason but in echoes, bottles on the floor. Those are sirens behind me. And it’s like you said — would’ve turned up dead in a car.
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive, Jodi Dean Dissolves (Terra Lucida IV-VIII), Joseph Donahue Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever, Will Hermes Larger Nature, Pam Rehm Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, Sharon Zukin Suggested Listening […]
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CultSoc10 Reading Photos
Click here to visit Caspar Newbolt’s artful photos from the CultSoc10 reading. We look nervous in some of these, buoyant in others. I think they capture the range and depth of feeling of the event. For those who might be unaware, Caspar has been a supporter, behind-the-scenes contributor, technical advisor, and inspiration to the CultSoc […]
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Readers
I just finished uploading the video recordings of the CultSoc 10 readers. You can scroll through them by clicking here or if Vimeo is your preferred hangout, you can visit the whole album here. They appear chronologically reversed; that is, Jon Curley opened the show and Peter O’Leary closed it. Such is revision in the […]