In Honour of Tubby
Tacoma, Washington, 2010 On November 7, 1940, a dog named Tubby died when the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapsed into the Puget Sound. An attempt…
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Intersections
Bridges surround us all, connecting us to friends and strangers alike. People say that the world is getting flatter, that Gmail and Snapchat are…
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Questions of generational difference: or Gen X in my 40s
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2011, Larry Edward Kamphausen explores, from…
Read MoreThem and Us
Disenthralling ourselves from the elaborate mythologies of other people’s power struggles is a tall order, but it’s a crucial work if we’re to avoid…
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Dresses of them
Last October a weekend away unraveled into seven days of limbo. I was thankful that the vintage black dress with gold buttons, which I…
Read MoreChaotic waters
We exclude also because we are uncomfortable with anything that blurs accepted boundaries, disturbs our identities, and disarranges our symbolic cultural maps. Others strike…
Read MoreRelocation: The Building of the Dyke Levee
Again, I ask the young, bright in muscles and orange hats as they stack concrete and lean away from the river to plant their…
Read MoreProjection
Why do we hate others or turn our eyes from them? Why do we assault them with the rhetoric of inhumanity? Why do we…
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Bridge over the Illinois
I’m driving on highway 29 in rural Illinois. This is the Midwest. When you travel here, you drive through corn and soybean fields. You…
Read MoreManufacture hatreds
The “practice of exclusion” and the “language of exclusion” go hand in hand with a whole array of emotional responses to the other, ranging…
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