Make Space for Public Space to be Public
URI PACHTER Go Cubs, go! Moments before midnight on November 2, 2016, Chicagoans let out a simultaneous sigh of relief and shriek of joy as the Cubs broke a 108-year…
Issue.09
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Interview with Kit Martin
NATALIE GALLAGHER In this issue we talk to Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy Ph.D. student Kit Martin about complex systems; that is, where the interactions of heterogeneous…
Staring into the Void: How Religion and Philosophy Address Chaos
KELLEY KIDD Popular webcomic XKCD | Source: XKCD (CC-BY-NC-2.5) Where the butterfly lands might change the course of natural order | Source: Missouri State Archives/Flickr Sometimes, things don’t go the…
The Ripples of Resistance: Chaos in the Native American Context
DELESSLIN GEORGE-WARREN And yes, we’ll live to be much older, thanks / To popular consensus. Weightless, unhinged, Eons from even our own moon, we’ll drift / In the haze of…
Poems Which Will Shatter the Glass: Methodologies for Protest Theatre
ROBERT DUFFLEY Barring a surprise bigger than that of his election, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States in January 2017. It would be…
Chasing Chaos and its Ping-Pong Ball
JEREMY GUYTON “Alright, I’m going to put on some music and I want you to respond to the words. Ignore the rhythm, ignore the beat. As you’re responding, try your…
An Act of Chaos: Understanding Dynamics of Randomness and Subversion
In this issue of SixByEight Press, we’re exploring the concept of chaos as it manifests in randomness (when there is no reason to expect a particular outcome) and subversion (when…