Dating Games
...individual humans met me for coffee, dinner, or drinks, but during my Great Online Dating Adventure, I was inspired to see all of two people a second time. The first...
The Noonday Shadow
...exchange and use value” – yet which makes that world far more dangerous and intolerable. It should be commensurate to the structures of intellection of the social order that brought...
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...to local high school and community college students—and they say they hope to eventually replace 20% of the curriculum with online courses from universities like Harvard and MIT. They explicitly...
RENT STRIKE 2020
A RESOURCE LIST
Kenya’s Security Act: Notes
...and substituting therefor the term ?ten thousand. Section 8 of the Public Order Act deals with Curfews 8. (1) The Commissioner of Police or a Provincial Commissioner may, if he...
Don’t Be a Stranger
...(not his real name). I was taking some time off from college in Portland, Oregon and had become an active member of a Portland-based online DIY community called Urban Honking....
Who Can You Trust?
...world, the Named garment achieves something our social networks cannot. We may never meet the three-dimensional version of our complete online cohort. But Minnie has a name. Order her. She’ll...
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
Locations Requiring Further Examination
...has the seating capacity for 25 to 30 people. Two Indian males, both 25 to 30 years of age, were working behind the counter. Taste of India: Location is a...
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”
Single Servings
...A new post-scarcity business model is in order: Like Google and Facebook, a successful online company going forward will need to rely on targeted advertising and on capturing user behavior...
Redefining the Right Wing
...the right has felt it necessary to counter that. So you find Burke suddenly invoking the duties of European citizenship in Letters on a Regicide Peace.. Last, the question of...
Cookie Cutters
...Many benefit from this relic and its inability to handle today’s complexities. This is best seen when we try to enter into agreements to opt out of online advertising schemes....
Hi Haters!
...inauthentic, no matter how authentic the process may have felt. Online, “becoming oneself” has turned into a crappy job — a compulsory low-paying, low-skill job. Interiority has become a factory;...
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing