Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez grew up together, as Catherine put it, “in the backseat, getting driven around, going on at least an annual family adventure in the car.” Their relationships with cars grew more complex in adulthood: both have lived in cities with easy-to-use public transportation, and in suburbs where cars were a costly necessity, and traffic a constant frustration.
by Daniel Simko
Hell bent blue moon, yellow eye of dust.
Cold irreparable desire.
I have been trying to explain something all night.
I am no longer sure of the subject.
Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. He is credited with coining the term “Virtual Reality,” and was a founding contributing editor of Wired. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (but certainly not Wikipedia) includes him in its list of history’s 300 or so greatest inventors. Below, the author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, tells us more about himself.
At the Actors’ Gang, Jaron Lanier greeted his audience as no other Zócalo audience has ever been greeted: “Hello, humans.”
It was an appropriate way for Lanier….
by Ko Un
Look at the man from the back.
If there were a god
would that be how he looked
on earth?
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