Sunday Reading, June 18, 2023
...that leaves young people righteously without faith in institutions, but more fluent in language with points of origin online. Casting faves as moms and dads is a fantasy gesture by...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 22
...local host Soterios Johnson over and over again. Then we are invited to follow them on Twitter and visit them online to watch videos. It seems that attempting to follow...
Quakes and Ale: Comparing Cultures in Catastrophe
...After all, you can’t fall off the floor. * * * Steinpilz holds a doctorate in English literature and is an editor of Generation Bubble, an online journal that explores...
Independent Poetry and the Pleasures of Concrete
...below it’. It is no coincidence, perhaps, that Onsando has previously participated in collaborative projects that combine images (Kenyan photography) with text (Kenyan poetry) such as the online Koroga Project,...
Cool Front/
Hot Mess
...reject disingenuousness. Kids know how to recognize the phoniness of fashionable fronting from their own experience in broadcasting their lives online. That’s why J.W. Anderson, a young 21st-century-formed designer, is...
Tennis with Muybridge
...favored subjects to show the human form in locomotion was the tennis player. Hosted at Wikimedia Commons, From: Boston Public Library via the Muybridge Online Archive text via Wikipedia click...
Daddy
...faith in institutions, but more fluent in language with points of origin online. Casting faves as moms and dads is a fantasy gesture by those orphaned by school curriculums we...
The "Sharing" Economy
...new crop of businesses that have sprung up to reorient some of the anti-capitalistic practices that have emerged online — file sharing, intellectual property theft, amateur samizdat distribution, gift economies,...
A Reading from 'Gharavi's Bio'
TNI contributor and blogger Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Brian Droitcour
Artistic autonomy and subsumption
...of online social networks, where its fate becomes the network's problem, not yours. But since social media also work as a site of explicit self-production as well as a covert...
EMP Pop Conference @ NYU 4/18-19
...range of issues pertaining to the region's musical landscape. The 2-day conference will feature multimedia keynote presentations by legendary producer Joe Boyd and a live-streamed discussion with singer/composer/online entrepreneur Amanda...
Safe in Our Archives
...how the self has been or will be recorded, how that self will turn up as an artifact of online searches. In other words, we are all life-loggers, whether we...
My Gay Shame, or, How Patriarchy Stole Sex
...online porn and sex advice were as ubiquitous as they are now, we learned sex from magazines. We bought them with pocket money, or borrowed them from our mothers and...
Using Life: Instructions for Play
...read online in English translation by Ben Koerber. Below, Ben Koerber reflects on the play in using life. ...The mother that reads a story to her child: this is resistance....
TNI Vol. 8: Other Animals
...inboxes today. All of the pieces will be available free online over the course of the next month, but don't let that stop you from subscribing, which you can do...
Bugs
...of the real. In “Virulence in the Virtual,” Remina Greenfield writes about the “first extensively printed account of virtual rape,” which took place in 1993 through a text-based online community...