Commentary
Some Hard-to-Chew Facts!
For the foods we chow down on every day, labels and nutrient values do not tell us enough […]
Article Tag: Rana Bose
Commentary
A Beat in My Head, A Word in my Heart, A Javelin Hurled in the Sky
I adjust my non-existent headphones and I add castanets, maracas, timbales, and I try to change the beat
Book Review
The Skin Below the Mask
Easily Fooled, by H. Nigel Thomas Guernica Editions, 2021, 293 pages It does not matter how sharp and […]
Editorial
Magma and Slivers of Moon
In this significant departure from the beaten path by our editorial board, we chose to dispense with the “theme statement”
Editorial
From Black Pepper and Coriander to Supply Chain and Pandemic Leverage
Globalization, as a phase of capitalist mutation, received a punch in the face from COVID-19.
Editorial
Climate change and the commons
In the past couple of years, we have all discussed and dissected, with intensity, the man-made climatological changes […]
Meditation
First Principles and Aesthetics
When we say first principles, we claim we are going down to the basics. To a fundamental truth. Being […]
Commentary
Making Khichdi or Hodgepodge Out of Identity and Class
Beliefs and affiliations There are many people who relate the concept of “class” to level of income. This is […]
Film Review
What should have been a Spike Lee spliff…Review of BlacKkKlansman
In response to a three-page critique[1] of the film by Boots Riley, the first point I want to […]
Poetry
Man on a Rocking Chair in San Juan & I Shot a .38
Man on a Rocking Chair in San Juan In San Juan I found a man rocking on his balcony, […]
Essay
Populism: Mesmerize and Confound the Present and Sully the Past!
Sometime in 1976, Jean Baudrillard, the French philosopher, suggested that saturating the media with carefully selected flash news disables […]
Commentary
The Marriage Made in Purgatory: Intelligent Tech and Unbridled Greed
Such systems are attempting to learn to recognize and identify voices, images, vocal tones and facial expressions, and develop a response that will go beyond a databank-based response system.
Meditation
Screaming Lambs, Skins and a Grandfather’s Eyes
Having played Hitler,Nixon and a range of serial killers and social screw-ups, and Picasso, for that matter, the aura surrounding his presence in a frame shot is devilishly complete.
Commentary
Theodolites, Rights and Democracy
Like worms in the soil, we love to slide and wriggle down this wonderful rectilinear cement-way of uniformity.
Essay
Sustenance is not debatable
Perhaps the notion that indigenous people living on reservations should have the same constitutional right to clean drinking water as non-indigenous people has not really dawned on the city people!