Issue 3

Editors ~ Computers: Good or Bad?

Letters ~ Consider the Predator

Suzanne Schneider ~ Some Recent Debates in Fascism

Quinn Soutar ~ Let's Get Biophysical

Eli Zeger ~ Marxist VCs Are Coming for Your Slurp Juices

Thomas Hobohm ∙ Mehrzad Farnoosh 

Max Ornstein & John Michael Colón ∙ Ea Nasir


Jake Romm ~ Abolish the Art Market!

Katherine Frain ~ "Great Minds" and Other Poems

KS Brewer ~ Undeath Becomes Her

Ashleigh Bryant Phillips ~ Fiction: Genesis

Words for our Present Reality

A Modest Proposal for a New and Living Ontology

We need a new kind of thinking. It would involve a break from the absolutism with which we dress up our systems of thought. It would demand that we bring different communities of thinkers together – especially those who have been left on the margins – and get them talking to each other so that we can inch closer to a shared language and a usable history.

40 Granite Street

Cambridge, MA | USA

The Book of Dreams, she called it, and in its subtitle: dedicated to Tawanda Mulalu.

Brezhnevitis

Brooklyn, NY | USA

Beware the brezhneviki. They know how to climb pyramids. Just don’t ask them to build one.

The Former Essayist

On the Decline of Wesley Yang

What is Wesley Yang’s answer to the question, What happened to Wesley Yang? I realized that this was indispensable to the whole query, even if it wasn’t the solution. I had a Yang-ian feeling that here lay something emblematic about American culture – less in each scene than in the (tragic?) arc of the play.

Strange Matters is a cooperative magazine of new and unconventional thinking in economics, politics, and culture.