 | In Switchboard
I could feel the heat three hundred yards away; everything on four or five floors, people and office equipment, came raining down on the crowd. We all ran north while it fell and got away before it hit because it was high up. As I glanced back I saw the contents of the floors: all on fire, people and building, killed without a second to reconsider their life. George Minarik was in New York. more > |
In Switchboard
"I don't think I will ever be able to forget how that felt - when that first tower fell, I swear that I could feel the lives of those people disappearing... Most of the day, I just felt hollow and empty, and frightened about how the world was going to change." Matthew Perpetua is in New York. more >
In Laboratory
Someone points out that your blood oranges-and-balsamic vinegar salad looks like a tub of organs. You laugh. It is well known that your colleagues will die young; that's the way it is. You do not think about who will have to do their autopsies. Brooke Magnanti works in the death industry.
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In Books
Just as traditional bogeymen have been replaced to some extent by paedophiles and other, more human terrors, so the fantastic beasts of mythology and the mediaeval bestiary have been exchanged for the less improbable subjects of cryptozoology. Catherine Wright investigates. more >
In Music
There was a time in America where you would hear a song on the radio, love it, and be afraid to walk away from the speaker for fear you would miss the DJ announcing who was performing. But with the media getting more homogenous and people turning to the internet for excitement, are those days over? Elijah Non Grata investigates. more >
In Head Shop
As fanfiction becomes more popular on the internet, does anyone stop to think whether professional writers find the use of their characters and worlds painful and debilitating? Is creativity a technology of identity? Nick C investigates. more >
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I could feel the heat three hundred yards away; everything on four or five floors, people and office equipment, came raining down on the crowd. We all ran north while it fell and got away before it hit because it was high up. As I glanced back I saw the contents of the floors: all on fire, people and building, killed without a second to reconsider their life. George Minarik was in New York. more >
[published 09/15/2001]
"I don't think I will ever be able to forget how that felt - when that first tower fell, I swear that I could feel the lives of those people disappearing... Most of the day, I just felt hollow and empty, and frightened about how the world was going to change." Matthew Perpetua is in New York. more >
[published 09/12/2001]
Someone points out that your blood oranges-and-balsamic vinegar salad looks like a tub of organs. You laugh. It is well known that your colleagues will die young; that's the way it is. You do not think about who will have to do their autopsies. Brooke Magnanti works in the death industry.
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[published 09/07/2001]
Just as traditional bogeymen have been replaced to some extent by paedophiles and other, more human terrors, so the fantastic beasts of mythology and the mediaeval bestiary have been exchanged for the less improbable subjects of cryptozoology. Catherine Wright investigates. more >
[published 09/01/2001]
There was a time in America where you would hear a song on the radio, love it, and be afraid to walk away from the speaker for fear you would miss the DJ announcing who was performing. But with the media getting more homogenous and people turning to the internet for excitement, are those days over? Elijah Non Grata investigates. more >
[published 08/30/2001]
As fanfiction becomes more popular on the internet, does anyone stop to think whether professional writers find the use of their characters and worlds painful and debilitating? Is creativity a technology of identity? Nick C investigates. more >
[published 08/21/2001]
Old TV series never die, they just bring out the film. It happened with the Flintstones. It happened with Scooby Doo. And now it's happening – or so Dame Rumour would have us believe – with the A-Team. Whisky Priestess reports. more >
[published 08/12/2001]
In other words, fanfiction as concept and practice can be central to one of the most important political / cultural / aesthetic problems of our time: is it possible to create anything new? Deva inquires. more >
[published 08/06/2001]
Lunchroom culture has bred a generation of pseudo-marginalised play-acting rich kids, whose teenage 'rebellion' trivialises the oppression of genuine subcultural groups. Devondra McMillan reports. more >
[published 07/30/2001]
For all its thickfisted commotion, the film of Gormenghast does translate Peake's larger concerns and themes. For all its subplots, which have as many blind alleys as the twisty corridors of the castle itself, the story is fundamentally about change and stasis. more >
[published 07/24/2001]
Parents are forever banging on about 'how there used to be ice on the insides of the windows' in their youth. Exams are getting easier. And people are more relaxed in their beliefs. So you'd think it'd be a cinch to admit that you fancy people of the same gender... more >
[published 07/24/2001]
"Poses" shattered my envious vision of a modern Jim Morrison, replacing it with the reality - a brutally honest and even dangerous gay musician. more >
[published 07/22/2001]
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