Robopoetics: The Complete Operator’s Manual

by Johannah King-Slutzky

Here’s a game: which of these poems was written by a human, and which by a computer?

A wounded deer leaps highest,
 I’ve heard the daffodil
 I’ve heard the flag to-day
 I’ve…

The Ends

by Daniel Solomon

The path is an archaic technology; the foot that fashions it, even more so. In a so-titled…

Is There Actually Still Grunge Music In Today’s Seattle?

“At Melbourne High School on the Atlantic coast in Florida, veteran theater director Rodney Savickis struck a deal with a local Starbucks to help sponsor an April production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ set to grunge music in today’s…

Kim Deal And Morgan Nagler, “The Root”

New York City, March 18, 2014

★★★ The plastic sheeting over the upper middle floors of the rising tower showed sharp wrinkle lines in the…

Killing @

“On its own, killing @ is a small move. Few other social media networks use @ as a way of indicating who you’re talking to. But at Twitter, @ is at the core of a crucial debate within the company about how to get Twitter’s user-base growing again. Some people — including CEO Dick Costolo — think the shorthand…

Book Cheap

I probably should have told you about this earlier but things have been CRAZY lately oh my God you wouldn’t even believe it but I won’t get into it because I think we both know how tedious other people’s protestations of how frantic they have been can be — not to mention how insulting, because, what, you…

God Damn, “Shoe Prints In The Dust”