While the world is not yet plain
A meditation on waiting for something to happen. "Every cigarette turns a page in a book of blank pages. Here I am again, waiting for inspiration. I palm a lighter, walk out the basement escape, into the summer sun..."
letter to the generations
What can be said between people of different times? "I am writing, grandfather, from a balcony overlooking the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Magdalena state, in Colombia..."
The Simulation
In the opposite of fanfiction, Elon Musk and Claire Boucher discuss a theologico-capitalistic argument for life as simulation.
Words of the Day
Fun words to learn.
Thirst in the Garden City: The Right to Water in Cochabamba, Bolivia
My undergraduate anthropology thesis, based on fieldwork in Bolivia, argues that after the Water War celebrated by alter-globalization and direct democracy movements, poor barrios faced much the same water problems they dealt with under neoliberalism.