Monthly Archives: September 2014

Revenge porn and the law of unintended consequences

Posted on September 28, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

The fact that revenge porn exists illustrates an entire tragicomic spectrum of unhappy, unintended con-sequences. More aptly, it demonstrates the lowest of the low: infantile exes who aim to shame, and the profit-blinded thugs who give them the platforms for doing … Continue reading →

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Here’s to Scotland

Posted on September 19, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

By any objective standard this summer has been just fucking awful. There has been war and disease, barbarism, and more than our usual apportionment of inexplicable and inexcusable slaughter. Mere hours remain now until the equinox, but even the longer … Continue reading →

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Bring the Funk

Posted on September 14, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

There is music, and then there is funk. And along with all of funk’s myriad attractions (just try to sit still when George Clinton and P.Funk give it up) there is also this: funk is nothing if not inclusive. Or … Continue reading →

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Katie Paterson and Margaret Atwood play the literary long game

Posted on September 6, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Great literature might be timeless, but until now both of those superlatives—greatness and timelessness—have been unintended (and probably too-good-to-be-hoped-for) parts of the writing experience. Writers write, readers judge, and history ultimately decides. That’s how it’s always gone Leave it to … Continue reading →

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When art was labor, and labor was salvation

Posted on September 1, 2014 by editor, facilitator, decider

Crises have a way of bringing out the best or the worst in people, and in societies, and in cultures. There’s rarely a middle ground, and there’s rarely any ambiguity to it. You might think of them as litmus tests … Continue reading →

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