2015 Fall Edition
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Men aren’t always safe.
We write it into their hands,
tell them “you scare me”.
“you are a pine needle”.
If you tell a needle it is a tree
Does its small sapling grow branches that cut?
Is my fear of dark forests
for young women with..
S(l)aving the Fabrikans
Sonny had never seen a Fabrikan in person. He stared at the miserable, metal thing as it imitated an uncannily humanoid slumber. It lay stiff across Sonny’s only good couch that often moonlighted as his bed. The other automaton explained..
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by Adel Clifton
Men aren’t always safe.
We write it into their hands,
tell them “you scare me”.
“you are a pine needle”.
If you tell a needle it is a tree …
Cosmology
Tien Taylor
a pond was just pond
until it became a pink sky
hugging tiny dandelions.
and then it became
a woman, whose curls…
Beyond the human body: expanding empathy to all life
*This is a midterm paper from CHID 390: Politics of Life, focusing on non-human life & using Ann Hamilton’s exhibit as a lens to think through cross-species connection
In this essay, I would like to focus on love,..
GEOCOSM: Breaking the Frame
By Andrea Harris
“Geocosm” is a pseudoscientific project blending methods of sampling and categorization with the ideas of cybernetics and ecology. It creates an archive of place and a language to question within. It was developed during my time of residency at the HEIMA Collective in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.
DIGIMEM: A Digitalization of Bergson’s Cone of Memory
By Michael Beach
DIGIMEM is an interactive website that represents Henri Bergson’s Cone of Memory in a digital format that bridges his ideas of time and memory with an idea of digital systems as a vital force that relates to humans in a symbiotic fashion …
The Organization: The Renegades
By David Nguyen
The Nautilus: An Oral History Poem of a Colonisation of Indigenous Peoples
Foreword
This poem is my attempt at capturing a snapshot of a long history of the Ngati Whatua o Orakei, a hapu (sub-tribe) belonging to a city district in Auckland now known as Orakei.
It is written as we, although the stories and experiences in this poem …
A Night on a Rooftop in Delhi
Acuity afoot, body and mind. Everything is tangible, yet overwhelmingly so.
I cannot fall asleep to this drum beating inside my brain.
The fan whirls my anxiety up and up—it will not come down.
Up the stairs, past the bolted doors, the rusty gate, the chill on my face …
Queering Foucault: biopower in MSM tissue donation policy
By A.W.Sully
This essay was originally written for the CHID class Biofutures. It was readapted and published online in Graphite Publications in Montreal.
Michel Foucault, a French social theorist and historian of ideas, lectured on political power schemes. In feudal aristocracy and absolute monarchies, kings and dictators muzzle a limited power: “le droit de faire mourir ou de laisser vivre” (1) …
Sounds of the Mother Tongue
Sounds of the Mother Tongue (Part 1)
My heart leaps at the sound of Tagalog and Ilocano
My ears are enveloped in comfort.
A piece of me awakening from slumber
My body feels like a child’s again,
As if I am home and I am safe …
The Right to the Alley
By Aidan Quinlan
The Allegro alleyway is a significant space for me (and for so many others too). With this short comic I explore how the crowded alleyway on 42nd, between the Ave and 15th, is conceived, perceived, and lived. It..
Notes on “Notes on Metamodernism”: The Role of Theoretical Perspectives in the Creation of Culture
By Evan Murphy
University at Buffalo Class of 2018
If I am not mistaken, the heterogeneous pieces I have enumerated resemble Kafka; if I am not mistaken, not all of them resemble each other. This second fact is the more significant. In each of these texts we find Kafka’s idiosyncrasy to a greater or lesser degree, but if Kafka …
Democracy and Populism in Asia: The case of Thaksin in Thailand
Grigoris Markou-Phanuwat Lasote
Postgraduate students of Political Analysis in the School of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Abstract
In recent years, Thailand has been continuously facing enormous political and social crises, which resulted in the 2014 coup d’état, the second military coup within the past 8 years…
The Aspiration to Create a New Nation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’
By Sana Abdulsalam
Effat University
Abstract
In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun, “Biafra” was conceived of as a nation. Even within its short lived and tumultuous existence, Biafra greatly shaped …
The Dream Recorder
by Chloe Sismour
My childhood was filled with dream catchers. Each night I checked to make sure my dream catcher was in proper, working order: there had to be just enough space to let the good dreams in and keep the bad dreams out –..
The Movement of Du Bois’ Double-Consciousness
The notion of “double consciousness” introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) continues to be explored in sociology, race studies, philosophy, and many other disciplines. This term is broadly understood as a..
Images of Power: A Child’s Search for Freedom and Identity
Rose Kohinke
rmkohinke@mail.roanoke.edu
Abstract
In The Panopticon, Jenni Fagan chronicles one child’s search for freedom and identity in the Scottish foster system. On the outside, Anais Hendricks presents a harsh…
How Do I Talk About Waste?
Inspired by Waste-Site Stories: The Recycling of Memory edited by Brian Neville, Johanne Villeneuve
When I see the greasy cardboard
The smell of pizza
Melting cheese
Bringing fond memories
I forget, I forget …