Archive - Passages

The tyranny of the tinkerer

And other thoughts on the afterlife of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters

Jul 11 •

June 2025

A farewell to Pike Street

From lower Manhattan to Virginia

Jun 16 •

March 2025

The Latin American part of Instagram Reels

Preliminary findings from a vital subdomain of the region’s cultural production

Mar 10 •

February 2025

San Francisco, beautiful lie

Travel notes toward a Californian sociology

Feb 24 •

January 2025

November 2024

Snakebit in the Bronx

What I saw, in spite of terrible hardships, at the Trump rally in May in Crotona Park

Nov 8, 2024 •

America’s Hegelian democracy

and its Freudian party system

Nov 4, 2024 •

October 2024

Christopher Columbus, first idiot

A quandary in pan-American history

Oct 14, 2024 •

Tom Wolfe at the Strand

Stalking the white-suited dandy

Oct 1, 2024 •

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