POWER – Vol. 8, No. 1, 2011
Camille Meyer This Woman from Boston was unable to get a boyfriend so she decided to create an army to get him for her. She was not good at making things either but she did know someone that was. She stole her dear friend Thomas’s thesis, which anyways, after six years she presumed he would never going to finish. The Woman arrived at her friend’s office on a sunny afternoon when, owing to the...
Elizabeth Lopeman & BT Shaw Question: In terms of collaboration, is one role or other inherently more powerful? How does power, then, affect the creative process (or not)? The Rules: 1. There are two writers: Writer One and Writer Two, hereafter referred to as WO and WT. 2. WT rolls a 20-sided gaming die to determine the value of n. 3. WO composes a paragraph of no fewer than n+50 words and no greater...
Vanessa Norton Alicia thought of the name as an unlucky coincidence. The owner of The Book Saloon, Ripley, had been the sole proprietor in Eugene to offer her a job. Had other shops been more receptive, she might have refused his offer on account of name alone. But Alicia was flat broke, and having seized her car’s engine, there was little she could do to get any further from the desert. Sixteen hours to...
Emma Cocker First – “Steps towards dancing solo” Habitually coupled with the preposition from, dissent is often defined by the thing against which it takes a stand or strives to differ. It is brought into existence by the very terms that it wishes to dispute or challenge, constituted by the logic of the same system that it simultaneously seeks to resist. Based on a practice of alterity or of being otherwise, dissent sets itself...
Morgan Campbell Introduction Since the economic liberalization of India in 1991, Chennai, India’s fourth largest city, has sought global city status in order to bring foreign investment into the city’s tertiary sector. Similar to Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, Chennai has in recent years successfully branded itself as a major international IT destination. To compliment the city’s global image, officials have encouraged private developers to invest in and construct new and exciting public places of...