The Power of Glamour
...staying up late to finish his own handwritten Next Generation scripts, you’d understand too. A bit of an outcast at that age but with a longing for community and quiet...
Hackers Gonna Hack
...Microsoft about two years ago and the program was only launched this year… I think it was interesting to them that a complex organization with a lot of moving parts...
Scenes Resembling Civil War
...of a nuclear power plant at Brokdorf near the North Sea, perhaps they expected the same peaceful acquiescence. What they found instead was quite different. Opposition groups called a large...
The Conservatism of Emoji
...the politics and ethics of data. She is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Visiting Professor at MIT’s Center for Civic Media and a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Information...
The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe”
The idea that tear gas is "safe" was produced through violent experimentation on working-class colonial subjects
Testing
...a discipline that would be able to not only understand human reproduction but control it, and would do it through data collection.” And suddenly, the wild popularity of Buzzfeed’s quizzes...
The New Inquiry Vol. 55: Testing
...the innovation: eugenics was Galton’s dream of a discipline that would be able to not only understand human reproduction but control it, and would do it through data collection.” And...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...should one need some cheer in the day, the Brazilian bourgeoisie in the midst of total self-annihilation, one party-swing over a pool of piranhas at a time, should help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUep44KoRo0...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...of black people were comprehensively forgotten and slipped under the radar. Instead of focusing in on the basic issue that still divided the country, therefore, people like Horace Greeley retrospectively...
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
...endearment. The Paris Opera Ballet commissioned a documentary about Doisneau from Bel, a "low-rank" dancer a week away from retiring after a 20-year career. The evening of her last performance...
Islamic Astropolitik
...American version of fundamentalist Islam, Babiism, governs every aspect of human life. Followers of Babiism are compelled to propagate the faith as an expression of “jihad” because religion is practical....
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part III)
...years under Biden have demonstrated very plainly that that is not the case. The reality of our political economy, as we try to document in our book Health Communism ,...
Trouble at the Language Lab
...communication. If anyone in the novel has the kind of power avant-garde writers seek to have over language, it’s Sam's daughter Esther and her cohort, who assault strangers and parents...
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...flicks a feed. My interest doesn't lie in the general anthropological overhaul bound up with the digital, for which the phone has come to serve as one particularly visible index....
Public Spaces
...data?” Was it an art project? A prank? Some of Horvitz's images were removed from the commons. Others were cropped and kept: the body was removed, and only the water...