January 28, 2016For a half-hour, my left hand, the one with the magnet implant in it, becomes the hand that commands the…
June 5, 2015Yesterday I struck my magnet while opening my fridge door and felt it shift like an intruder in my flesh.…
March 3, 2015My shortform multimodal composition on mobile phone testimony and the Tamil genocide, "War without witness: Mobile phone testimony in preserving…
May 1, 2014If I am always thinking about dismantling our binding webs of signification. Do we begin here, in the moment of…
March 18, 2014Somewhere between life and academia lies a sinkhole comparable to what is, in Internet parlance, produced when you divide by…
August 22, 2013Last year, a 20-year-old man named Michael Israel committed suicide after battling addiction to painkillers. His father, Senator Tim Kennedy,…
June 29, 2013Lately I've been thinking about a horizontal eyebrow piercing. It's an idle thought. I doubt I'll ever modify any part…
June 30, 2012Bedridden as I've been with pain, I'm stuck with a view of my cluttered room to my right and apartment…
June 21, 2012I've recently been obsessing over the 1997 film Event Horizon, a sci-fi/horror flick described by its director as "The Shining in…
October 8, 2011By now I'm sure we've all heard about Union Square, Washington Square Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, and other city sites…