The Pity of Okja
Okja critiques affective labor—but it nonetheless relies on its effects to market animal rights
Emma Allison, a ‘Lady Engineer’
By Robert Davis
Blackpentecostal Breath
An excerpt from Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, which was published by Fordham University Press in October 2016.
80’s-2017 – _E ++[ G R ] E A T E R++ T: L + H| WFAL [TM]
“We knew,” he finished my sentence.
Algorithms Allowed
View Algorithms Allowed here. Introduction by Rob Horning Joana Moll’s “Algorithms Allowed” scrapes websites from countries that the U.S. has sanctioned or embargoed—Cuba, Iran, North…
Sick City, Soaked Lens
When even the camera itself can’t be excused for its complicity.
Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism.
No SWAT Zone
Resisting police militarization under Trump.
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
Everything in Its Place
To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
Know Your Rights
We limit our resistance to fascism by relying on liberal conceptions of human rights.
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
You Can Encrypt Your Face
Facial recognition technology turns your face into code that can be archived and traded among strange and suspect parties. Its growing sophistication in the hands…
Editors’ Note, Vol. 61: Conspiracy
Just because they’re after you, doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.
You Probably Think This Bot Is About You
When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.