ISSUE 44 | SEP 2014

FREE MONEY

A closer view of money.

« Poverty Addicts overwork, underbill, and even lose paychecks » - I stopped wanting anything on birthdays - my friend was telling me something about chaos, and I watched the concept merge with the evening bread basket - the « Bank of Hell » is pictured on the back - I was observing the Sabbath, inhabiting a world in which money ceases to exist

Ulysses Pascal

Free Money, Free Money: Bitcoin and Ethereum

technologies that have attempted to realize social and moral barriers as physical ones - in the eyes of the libertarian anarcho-capitalist - the possibility of a more abstract, flexible system for cryptographic exchange - Ethereum is not a currency; rather, it is a platform - a debt to ourselves - smart contracts promise a world where the government is not required to enforce laws

Josh Fleet

Confessions of a Compulsive Genizah Diver

that thing called "G!d" - uninterred contents of dust-jacket bins and manuscriptoriums of yore - but these were free - a thin layer of scrapped pamphletry lines the bottom - down there in the dark is a heap of light - some overweight Kabbalist must've recently cleaned out his closet - one may violate the Sabbath for a small list of things

Olivia Durif

Whiskey, Women, and Gold: Loss & Profit in Country Songs

what you get when you play a country song backwards - but loss makes space to rewrite the past - Kip Moore's 2014 summer chart-topper - you blow it so you can repent - simile gives way to an economy - what do a truck, a beer and a kiss have in common - the small glory of getting in order to lose, losing in order to hope

Brian Mayer

The Giving Season

he puts the big bills on top so they beg to be taken - one time a child notices him - every day the suitcase becomes lighter - he cannot remember the year - as the boys stuff the useless cash in his pockets, his pants, his collar, his mouth - his black and white turned green and dirty - he knows how he needs to start again