In This Issue


Dick Pics for Sacred Healing: A Meditation on the Provenance of Objects
An investigation into the functionality and symbolism of a mysterious gold penis

Ghost: How I Learned About White Feminism
"She dodges responsibility like the type of abruptly swooping ghost seen in movies."

It's in the Cloud: Miasma, Healthcare.gov, and Computing
The history of health in clouds, from miasmas to digital healthcare and "cloud campuses"

Judging the Lover by the Cover
A targeted system of textual seduction: trap yourself an NYC intellectual.


Monthly Ekphrastic: Albert Bierstadt’s Mount Hood
Were it a religion or at least a lifestyle I would like to be baptized into Luminism.
![Monthly Ekphrastic: Constantin Brancusi’s <i>The Miracle (Seal [1])</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Brancusi_1-1024x767.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Constantin Brancusi’s The Miracle (Seal [1])
Like a slug erect and slimeless.

Monthly Ekphrastic: GIF from Alice Suret-Canale’s Hour Hour Minute Minute
Large Disaster Small Disaster

Monthly Ekphrastic: Jitish Kallat’s Annexation
I’m trying to glide / through the halls of the museum / like a low-budge pixelated ghost.


Monthly Ekphrastic: Opening of Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound at the Museum of Arts and Design
However, it is Fragile and Unique

Monthly Ekphrastic: Pablo Gonzalez’s Dog and Squirrel Mural
The painter requests that you imagine / this other reality busting through

Monthly Ekphrastic: Photograph from Robert Frank’s London/Wales
"Here is a question we all must ask: / if we found ourselves below / a London underpass on some sunlit / morning or bright late afternoon / in the decade after the war"

Preserving Culture, or a Brief History of the Jackalope
Commercial tourism and the great America that never was



Spiritual Principles and Laboratory Work: The Wondrous History of Alchemy
Chemical philosophers, Galenists, and mechanists war over the meaning of scientific inquiry in early modern Europe.

Success Sans Tragedy: the Story of Katy Perry
Tragedy, authenticity, and quality in Katy Perry's Part of Me and their relation to dominant narratives of the artist.


The Glass Coffin
Never let it be said that a man once unceremoniously barred from the Ivy League cannot travel far and rise to great heights.

The Mechanical Age: Automata between social critique and the uncanny
The uneasy space between human and machine in late 18th century Europe

The Monthly Ekphrastic: Jessi Reaves’s Watertight Shelf With Zippers


The Monthly Ekphrastic: Martha Friedman’s Two Person Operating System
My/Your Body Is and Is Not Like a Machine

The Monthly Ekphrastic: Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum
Poems in response to Kerry James Marshall's Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum

The Robber Bridegroom
In the hour before she left, the old woman set about putting her house in order.

The Trump Who Cried Witch: Unruly Language and the American Witch Hunt
Speech, defamation, and witchcraft (on Twitter and in the transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials)




Treasonous Transmissions and the Death of Clue's Singing Telegram Girl
electronic presence and Clue
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