2015 Fall Edition | intersections

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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..

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

By: Haley Bosco Doyle

*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…