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Find our digital incarnations at http://casemagazine.squarespace.com http://twitter.com/case_mag Your RSS reader is stale. You've read and hated every Thought Catalog article from the last five years. Whenever you Google "funniest Twitter feeds" you already recognize all the entries. Every torrent has been downloaded; every season of Parks & Recreation watched twice. You can hear your bookshelf, f

ull to the point of overflow, taunting you from downstairs. Pitchfork feels somehow over. You've resorted to paging through random Wikipedia articles just for new content, some flotsam large enough for your mind to cling through in the ocean of wreckage that is the internet. You feel - bored? STAFF:
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12/04/2015

Alert, earthlings. The entire pre-2015 CASE Mag archive is now available in this WordPress repository. Read all your faves from years past.

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Is the future of food simply nutrition?"In a world already engaging in panicked speculation about the end of Chipotle gu...
05/28/2014

Is the future of food simply nutrition?

"In a world already engaging in panicked speculation about the end of Chipotle guacamole, the possibility that food will become a luxury item and humans will have to find an alternative, more resource efficient means of nutrition does not seem too far-fetched."

http://casemagazine.net/recently/our-daily-soylent-future-of-food

by Philip Menchaca When I learned that Soylent, a food substitute created in Rob Rhinehart's Silicon Valley blender, began shipping to U.S. consumers this month, I had only one thought: they can pry my food from my cold, dead hands. Admittedly, having spent the afternoon boiling a ham bone, I was ov…

Cara Giaimo writes from the depths of the California woods on adaptation, human and otherwise, at Autostraddle q***r cam...
05/26/2014

Cara Giaimo writes from the depths of the California woods on adaptation, human and otherwise, at Autostraddle q***r camp.

"It's wonderful to watch people who have spent years making micro-adjustments finally let go a little bit, wear what they want to wear and use the words they want to use without constantly keeping an eye out for circling hawks."

http://casemagazine.net/recently/where-the-birds-all-have-mohawks

By Cara Giaimo When you first get dressed in the morning, you feel dressed. But within a few minutes, all your nerves get used to your clothes, and begin ignoring them in order to focus on more important things. The brain works similarly -- live your life in the same place every day, and that place…

Today, Mel Mignucci on Chipotle Mexican Grill's current foray into flash fiction: "The issue is the reduction of literat...
05/23/2014

Today, Mel Mignucci on Chipotle Mexican Grill's current foray into flash fiction: "The issue is the reduction of literature to the puzzle on the back of a cereal box, something ancillary to the real product."

by Mel Mignucci Dear Chipotle, my old friend, It’s been a while since we’ve last talked. I’ll admit, I haven’t been too faithful – the burrito stand in my college town, while not as reliable as you, has a kind of endearing kitschiness about it (and is closer than the Chipotle in Kingston). This prol…

What can work bring to our lives, and what leads us to walk away? Rachel Edelman on career fulfillment."I walk away, aga...
05/21/2014

What can work bring to our lives, and what leads us to walk away? Rachel Edelman on career fulfillment.

"I walk away, again and again. I still seek satisfaction, knowing capitalism doesn’t reward such a sentiment unless it’s coupled with other, more marketable, feelings."

http://casemagazine.net/recently/2014/5/20/one-day-more

by Rachel Edelman Last Thursday afternoon, I left my job. It was a good job, or a decent job, or a job I made it through. For the past two years, when people have asked what I do for a living, I’ve told them, “I’m the development and marketing coordinator for a small environmental education nonprofi…

Lilia Kilburn in conversation with Jonathan Evan Davies on solo musicmaking and magic hour."I wouldn't consider myself t...
05/19/2014

Lilia Kilburn in conversation with Jonathan Evan Davies on solo musicmaking and magic hour.

"I wouldn't consider myself to be a very nostalgic person but I guess I'm a sucker for the emotional affect of nostalgic art."

casemagazine.net/creative/2014/5/18/jonathan-evan-davies-white-river

White River by Jonathan Evan Davies Downtown White River Junction, VT. Credit: The Boston Globe L: This song is so beautiful and eerie, from the melancholy banjo planking of the intro to the elegiac synth outro. What prompted y…

"I try to craft the perfect response. One for women everywhere. This is a teaching moment; what will be a lesson the boy...
05/16/2014

"I try to craft the perfect response. One for women everywhere. This is a teaching moment; what will be a lesson the boys will never forget. I’m a Smith grad, a social worker, a Simone de Beauvoir reader. And I have no clue what to say. You’re a pig. F**k off. Grow up. With every response I think of, I picture them reading it aloud, laughing and calling me prude or uptight, then texting the next girl in the address book. No text can convey how I feel."

By Anna Hogeland “U should send us a pic of ur titties,” reads a text message from my hometown area code. I don’t recognize the number. On the off chance this is actually for me from someone I know, I ask who it is. They tell me who they are: a group of boys from high school, platonic friends with w…

Thea Hogarth on MOOCs, net neutrality, and the many paradoxes of online education."As education begins to migrate online...
05/14/2014

Thea Hogarth on MOOCs, net neutrality, and the many paradoxes of online education.

"As education begins to migrate online, it won't necessarily change its audience if students have to pay a premium to internet companies to access educational content."

http://casemagazine.net/recently/2014/5/13/internet-school-online-education

By Thea Hogarth It’s a typical college class. The students lumber in and the professor plops her books down on the podium, which the microphone picks up a bit too clearly. She – the professor – begins to make some opening announcements as the students get settled. She implores them to do the reading…

Roxane Gay on bell hooks and Queen Bey."It's quite the contradiction to want to overthrow the patriarchy but to also bel...
05/12/2014

Roxane Gay on bell hooks and Queen Bey.

"It's quite the contradiction to want to overthrow the patriarchy but to also believe that, even now, the patriarchy is so omnipotent that women are incapable of making empowered decisions when they make decisions that don't toe the feminist party line."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/12/beyonce-bell-hooks-slave-terrrorist?CMP=twt_gu

Roxane Gay: Women have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists

When fancy food isn't just about food, it's about the way we frame it:"It’s a gentle but slightly unsettling kind of sno...
05/12/2014

When fancy food isn't just about food, it's about the way we frame it:

"It’s a gentle but slightly unsettling kind of snobbery, resting lightly on a plane where $40 per pound is a reasonable price to pay for really good cheese, and where talking about the flavors in food is almost as sensually satisfying as eating the food itself."

http://casemagazine.net/recently/2014/5/11/fancy-feasting

By Zoe Fenson It’s a windy Monday evening. I’ve skipped out of work a little early to meet up with friends for a cheese and charcuterie tasting class in the Mission. It’s not the sort of thing I usually do on a weeknight, but it’s exactly the kind of thing I love: fancy artisanal food, and lots of i…

"He starts screaming and snorting into the microphone, like the old Ultimate Warrior, but his face is sweaty and his mas...
05/09/2014

"He starts screaming and snorting into the microphone, like the old Ultimate Warrior, but his face is sweaty and his mask cheap; it begins riding up his face, obscuring his eyes partly. Eventually, he can barely see, but the crowd is cheering, the crowd adores him, and if he was self-conscious to begin, he at some point loses himself, lets loose and starts saying insane things about death and immortality and blood pumping through veins, and by the time he’s yelling about the Ultimate Warrior living forever, I realize that the awkward, fragile man in the ring was always somehow awkward, always in some way fragile, and we always played along regardless."

By Michael J. Harrington The first assignment from my first fiction writing professor wasn’t some involved free writing exercise or a read through of the Elements of Style, but instead a list: write down the first 5 books you ever read. My plan to impress the authorial socks off my professor quickly…

In America, most recorded violence is committed by men. Olivia Haber-Greenwood argues that such violence is the result o...
05/07/2014

In America, most recorded violence is committed by men. Olivia Haber-Greenwood argues that such violence is the result of an acculturated sense of entitlement and unease with threatening of masculine power.

"Violence is a public act, even when it occurs on an intimate level, and is always engaging with larger cultural norms about how to behave, how to be a man, and how to be a woman. "

http://casemagazine.net/recently/wherearethegunwomen

May 7, 2014 by Olivia Haber-Greenwood Why is it that men are so much more likely than women to commit violence? I was just looking at the comprehensive list on wikipedia of every school shooting since the 1800s. I don’t recommend doing this. I don’t know why I was doing it myself. But I was. And the…

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