Cloudy Logic
Big data doesn’t forecast the future but remakes the present in the image of down-to-earth stereotypes.
The Space NDN's Star Map
The creation story is a spaceship
Why Do Stars Love the Stars?
Celebrities and their astrologists practice an ancient psychological form of art.
Beyond MLK
Selma depicts Martin Luther King as a hard-headed radical at odds with LBJ by 1964, but his radicalism only came later, after Ella Baker, the SNCC and the movement pulled him forward.
Otherwise Movements
Generalized unthought movement is about articulating a relation of difference.
No Spin Zone
Telescopes are now discovering Earth-size planets throughout the galaxy, but an astronomer at Berkeley explains why that doesn’t mean they are habitable
Past Perfecting
Retouching is not merely servant to photography but is an artistic medium in its own right
The Data Sublime
The sublime unknowability of Big Data lets us fall in love with our own domination.
Sickness Unto Death
Atul Gawande’s newest book wagers that a new attitude toward mortality can help save American medicine
Klein vs. Klein
This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once.
All The Wild Animals
In David Attenborough's latest BBC nature series Life Story, the animals play very human roles
Taking Shit From Others
Recent FDA regulation of shit as a medical treatment brings to light the ambivalence of excrement
The Failure of Bystander Intervention
Bystander intervention is less a weapon in the fight against sexual assault and more an evolved form of victim blaming.
Circle Circle Dot Dot
Cooties, like racial identity, pass from body to body. But how can you protect yourself from a danger that looks like yourself?
Why These Tweets Are Called My Back
So-called Toxic Twitter is made up of marginalized women of color for whom social media started out as yelling into the void and became a grassroots movement
Distracted by Attention
As an increasingly transforming metric can attention be understood in terms of an economy? On Yves Citton's Pour Une Écologie de l'Attention