... motivated to cause change. Currently, though, there’s an abundance of knowledge, and of media, about how fucked up the world is. A variety of texts—memes on “Weird Facebook,” Claudia Rankine’s Citizen , and journalism about Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket —register frustration with assumptions that the...

...After Globalism Writing Group As Internet memes and fake news permeate our collective mediascapes, a return to reasoned, balanced, and civil discourse appears to be the antidote to sensationalism. This essay argues that reason often falls short and that knowledge must be situated within the...

... sensate’s immediate surroundings is a stage on which a whole series of other places can appear before them; like in the cinema, digitized clips of the series can recombinate into memes, GIFs, and fan fictions; and, lastly, like the garden, each sensate is a rare and precious biological specimen that a...

... particularly fertile ground. The novel, which took the form of a detective story, was less a whodunit than an epistemological mystery. Mumbo Jumbo details one episode of an ongoing contest between the JGC’s—the carriers of “jes grew,” the meme...