When we center the planetary crisis in our thinking about the world, one central fact becomes clear: our ideas about the pace of change—how fast we can create change, the costs and benefits of more rapid action, the politics of speed and delay—are the most out-of-date part of the climate/sustainability debate. Our sense of tempo is broken, and few of us are ready for how fast things are beginning to move… or that most of humanity benefits more the faster we move.

The human zoo.

“Bambi” Is Even Bleaker Than You Thought.

In the middle of her words she rolled over on her side and died.

Chansons: Adieu més tres belles amours.

“Thou shalt commit adultery.”

How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay?

Literature’s history is a history of mistakes, errors, misapprehensions, simple typos. It’s the shadow narrative of expression—how we fail because of sloppiness, or ignorance, or simple tiredness. Blessed are the copyeditors, for theirs is a war of eternal attrition. Nothing done by humans is untouched by such fallenness, for to err is the universal lot of all of us. Authors make mistakes, as do editors, publishers, printers (and readers).

What Tech Workers Don't Understand They've Lost by WFH.

As an employee, I was initially excited by the benefits of working from home, but slowly realised that complete remote working was an alienating experience that has diminished the boundaries between work and leisure.

What’s a girl to do?

Queen Cristina.

Is the world (finally) ready for the wit and wisdom of new-wave icon Cristina?

Relevant: Jean-Paul Goude.

The Tantalizing Failures of Irma Vep.

But without Cheung, Irma Vep loses its crucial and revealing portrayal of othering — and how what we desire onscreen is as politicized as anything else. Moreover, it misses out on the opportunity to comment on how overwhelming a force China is in the film world today, enough so that Hollywood productions might cleanly nix LGBTQ+ characters or moments from run times in order to release in the territory.