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Current issue, no. 45



Facebook's new vision of privacy doesn’t hold any power because it does not challenge the definitive power framework for users of social media.

Online

The Uber Presidency

Ross Barkan

As Trump is the apotheosis of rank materialism and revanchist nationalism in the political arena, Uber is Silicon Valley’s greatest and most absurd offering to the American public.



 



Poems



Fiction

The Octopus Dilemma

Ned Beauman

The terms of the bet declared that for every ten seconds under sixty seconds it took the diver to wrestle the octopus out of. . .



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