(pub. 2017) The game of pachinko is little like pinball and little like a slot machine. You don’t need to know much more about the game other than to understand that the machines are manipulated in much the same way the slot machines are programmed. To favor the house at all times but to allow …
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Women & Power: A Manifesto — Mary Beard
(pub. 2017) Two essays published in the London Review of Books in 2014 and 2017 In the Public Voice of Women, Beard shows the depth and breadth of the practice of the silencing of women. She begins with the silencing of Penelope by her son Telemachus in the Odyssey. When Penelope enters the hall to ask …
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. …
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 …
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 …