Monthly Archives: February 2018

Being Against the Eternal Now

I have been com­ing to Oaxaca for 16 years now. I come for weeks or even months at a time, and yet I am so far unable to mas­ter the lan­guage. In spite of all the time I’ve spent going to din­ner, rid­ing in taxis, and attempt­ing to deci­pher the labels in the gal­leries and museums. … 

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The Books Of January

Fiction: Artemis — Anthony Weir From the guy who brought you The Martian, one of the finest sci-fi adven­tures of the last 20 years, Artemis is anoth­er adven­ture in space. This time on the moon with lots of sci­ence: lunar shel­ters and man­u­fac­tur­ing in zero G and more than most of us need to know about … 

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Things that Make You Think

From the exhi­bi­tion “Guex Liu, Kuu ñun­ro, Totlalhuan” por Fernando Palma Rodríguez — shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca.  These are only a lit­tle taste of the many mov­ing con­struc­tions.  It is amaz­ing what a cre­ative per­son can do with some qual­i­ty ser­vos and a cou­ple of Arduino boards. Sewing machines and … 

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