I liked Hofesh Shechter’s Grand Finale. I liked, but not so much, Ulster American, by playwright David Ireland, presented by the Traverse Theatre Company, est. 1963. A part of the few thoughts I have now the energy to jot down concerns the institutional setting, including the timer setting of

the title, citing Wim Nusselder, is from comments on the video at Kate Raworth’s website.

I don’t want to be the one who lives here     but the alien I want to visit your beautiful country I don’t want to speak this tongue     but the alien I want to hear your beautiful language I don’t want to share the words used     to be

Reading Shaw’s article in the New York Review of Books I reach a point where the question seems to be begged. This is not the same as raising questions. Shaw raises questions around the ethics of dual-use research: research that has a potential military application as well as an

Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n. 1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A