Past Presence The Wake of the Wake By Dr. Emily Price • June 30th, 2023 Folk-punk, increasingly experimental band AJJ is best listened to when you randomly remember them, like a book of poems you skim through annually and then put back on the shelf.
Past Presence Virtual Citizen By Dr. Emily Price • May 25th, 2023 A legend, per the OED, is “a story from ancient times about people and events that may or may not be true.” If the residents of Wild World are anything in my memory, they are that: ancient stories.
Past Presence Being So Normal By Dr. Emily Price • February 28th, 2023 Sally Rooney books are basically Victorian novels in millennial form, Middlemarch if Dorothea and Lydgate had cell phones and email.
Past Presence Recursion By Dr. Emily Price • January 26th, 2023 Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.
Past Presence Enter the Gremlins By Dr. Emily Price • December 23rd, 2022 Emily’s (live) reactions to the movie, time stamped if you want to watch along.
Past Presence Roadwarden By Dr. Emily Price • October 27th, 2022 There is a gate made out of living thorns, a tree that drinks your blood, and a river with birds that call to you in human screams.
