Pseudo-spiritual self-help memoirs line bookstore shelves, instructing us how to
use our breath to get happy. Hot Yoga classes with a side of watered-down
Buddhism shape our bodies and minds, selling self-actualization like
If retail is an art, then wholesale is a slaughter–
the shopkeeper an artist, the wholesaler a soldier.
The customer is a gallery, with hooks and white walls.
The bulk-buyers wield kalashnikovs.
One
Beginning in the nineteenth century, the English-speaking world saw the rebirth
of a strange type of clergyman: the priest-scholar interested in the
otherworldly. While men of the cloth have long been part of
Numerous science fiction films tell the story of artificial intelligences
rebelling against their human creators. Recently, in Marvel’s Age of Ultron,
Tony Stark accidentally creates Ultron, an embodied AI bent on creating
(Following Neruda)
Is there anything more naked
Than a book’s cover?
Did we discover the cinema
In sleep’s auditorium?
If the first god was an animal
Will the last be a
