Consider the Dinosaur
Toward a philosophy of the asteroid
From beyond the grave, the dinosaurs tell us we need a philosophy of the asteroid.
All Back Pages
The Soul of Man Under Fascism
Reading Gramsci’s prison letters in an age of catastrophe
A new Gramsci emerges from the prison letters: not the immortal theorist, but an all-too-human man at the breaking point.
Do you remember the thrill
when our roots crossed? How it would kill us?
Spiraling Melancholia
An interview with Fox Maxy, whose films explore identity in frenetic first-person shots
Our writer chats with Fox Maxy, a Native experimental filmmaker whose work blends documentary with fiction in a distinct DIY aesthetic.
Figure and Frame
Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal
By placing ordinary people at the center of her work, Safi Faye revolutionized Senegal's cinema.
The Former Essayist
On the decline of Wesley Yang
Whatever happened to Wesley Yang?
From Issue 3
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or remember birthdays.They see clear through one aspect of the world, socks and all. The aspect furls and stretches like a catbaked in sunlight. Or molten glasspulled like hot caramel in cool stone hands. I have known three Great...
In the Domain of the Unknown
From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.
A drowned Victorian teen, her medical manikin doppelganger, and their enduring entanglement with the question: “Can death be undone?”
