Vol. 25 Editors' Note: H8
...comes at a cost. It is particularly expensive for women, who are guaranteed misogynist hate mail upon achieving any online prominence. As trolls and cyberbullies emerge as society’s new bêtes...
The Ladies Vanish
...denied pay and receives a lower online rating, making it harder to obtain future work on the site. But the legal structure of Mechanical Turk is such that Amazon can...
TNI Rex (3)
...the Belgian filmmaker ever produced. You'll have trouble finding it online, so you're best bet is to rent Criterion's deluxe edition of Slacker, a two-DVD set that includes It's Impossible...
Discipline and Pleasure
...free. FOR those blissfully unaware, Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), which is a strategy-game subgenre somewhere between MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World...
Permission Slips
...personal artifacts. Like a street photographer stumbling on an irresistible tableau, Maloof seized the opportunity and developed Maier’s street photographs, presenting the work to the public online and later, as...
Neither Fish Nor Flesh
...mermaid tails online — you can buy inexpensive fabric ones, medium-priced latex ones, or elaborate, true-to-life silicone ones that will put you out a few thousand dollars — and the...
Living is Easy
...bars in Snowpiercer. And what about Snowpiercer? Is this the thinking viewer’s exception to the rule? A popular hit with brains too? For all the hard work underpaid online writers...
Presumed conspicuous
...less upsetting than hunger?" Social media are premised on the answer to that question being self-evidently "no." The structure of online social networks ensure that nobody is leaving anybody alone...
Fragments on microcelebrity
...once reserved for artists and aesthetes has been democratized -- now we can all treat our friends like characters in our online roman à clef! Only most artists don't seem...
Desiring Machines
...tentatively traipsing through the World Wide Wilderness. Now it’s time to begin making contact with the natives — with the spambots, mail-order brides, and online apothecarists already appearing unsolicited in...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...with likeminded people. That is the only thing that makes it worth it to me. But online fame is also a cesspool of resentful souls who really have way too...
Naming Nameless
...was underwritten by the hours I clocked for research: Five hours a day online — at least — every day of the week. I tuned into seven to ten IRC...
Sunday Reading
...Age: Keynes, Malthus, Marx and the Post-Scarcity Vision Reclaim UC: The FBI is seeking information from UCI activists The Governor, the UC budget, and online education UC student code of...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...Eve Plumb, Lisa Hammer, and Lisa Ferber, and written by Ferber (whom you've met plenty of times on The Beheld before)—qualifies as madcap comedy. The second season is now online....
Phantom Tollbooths
...freely accessible online. While researchers themselves generally support open access, private journal publishers like Elsevier depend on the protection of copyright in order to make money, which they do by...
Precarious Verse
...exercise of power. The power exercised in the present instance — grouping poets alphabetically for easier online access — is the power to bracket considerations of literary merit, a poet's...