Faulty Towers, Translation Stories, and the End of the World
Volume 47 Issue 1 — September 15, 2023
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Featured Pieces
For Indy Metro, Kian Braulik B’24.5, Kabir Narayanan B’24, and Jean Wanlass B’25 situate the failed development of the Fane Tower within a larger tendency of Rhode Island politicians toward risky spending.
“There is an exemplary supply of failed, risky development in Rhode Island—almost the basis of a legislative tradition—and yet very little evidence of lessons learned.” Read more here.
In World for Issue 1, Gonzalo Álvarez García R’26, Dun Jian Chen B’24, Dri de Faria B’26, and Lily Seltz B'25 recount in brief their quotidian experiences with the incommensurable and irreconcible dimensions of translation.
From the Editors: “World is about translation at its core: language to language, place to place, writer to reader.” Read their bites here.
In Science & Technology, Daniel Zheng B’25 reminds us that the subjects of apocalypse narratives (both popular and in the media) are usually archetypical white, male protagonists, one in tension with the real people—including Indigenous people and climate refugees—experiencing world-ends everyday.
“Our stories, too, should narrate what is happening to real people—who, in spite of the present closeness of the end, continue and will continue to live and move through the world.” Read his piece here.
Also in this week’s issue:
The Bulletin
Upcoming events and local organizing. Read here.
Week in Review
Week in One Man’s Trash — by Dana Herrnstadt B’24
Arts
Riding with the Hermaphrodite Cowboy — by Maya Avelino B’24
Feats
Unrelenting, Unbreakable, Unfeeling — by Abani Neferkara B’24
Ephemera
McKayla Maroney’s Perfect Vault, London 2012 — by Quinn Erickson B’24.5
Zimmerman Telegram — by Manuela Sepúlveda R’27
Literary
The Inquisitors — by Madeline Canfield B’24
Metro
Rug Bern — by Kian Braulik B’24.5
X
Sketchbook Spread — by Daniel Torres R’24
Dear Indy
Back 2 School — by Solveig Asplund B’24
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