Gamifying Beauty
...lending the benefits of gaming to more tedious tasks (like work), the tedium is lessened because it feels more like play. Perhaps you’ll be more likely to, say, complete online...
Sunday Reading
...Frank Pasquale: The phantom fraud task force. Scientism is shallow. Manufacturing folk devils. New corporate education model: "online correspondence school for very rich adults who want to be flattered"...
Rhizome Call for Papers and Projects on E-Cigarettes and Vaping Technologies
...wide net for histories, essays, artworks, workshops, and polymorphous contributions to shape this inquiry to be held online and off. Be in touch... Deadline Nov 12 More info ...
Killing the Angel in the House
...when I couldn't sleep I found instructions online for how to care for a donkey. Donkeys are supremely underrated. They are life's best companion. (From the handbook: 'Donkeys will mother...
Presenting Men
Some considerations...
The Bitter Women of Japanese Noir
...the scales by bringing others down. A search for “bitter women” online comes up with a bevy of results that imply, even today, that women have a reputation for it....
One-Dimensional Woman
...been released. Locals who remember her crimes leave online reviews of any retail business unwise enough to hire her, asking why the store gives haven to a child molester....
The Petraeus Affair: Infidelity, Beauty, and Scapegoating
...use a makeover, and the aforementioned comment-section trolls, the only mention of Holly Petraeus’s looks I could find by poking around online comes from...well, Meghan Daum, and people rightfully echoing...
Called to Account
...Society, especially those that are both necessary and a hindrance to building a socially respectable life. You talk about them in your own life—reading sort-of-work-related online news, buying a house,...
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
...cases textured by images, objects, and texts, many of which cite the self-articulated interests of school shooters as posted on online forums. Crespo’s punny invocation of “case” within her title...
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Experiments in inertia
...it seems somewhat arbitrary to limit the possibilites to three, I can easily see how these can be used to taxonomize most people's online presence: There aren't many that can't...
An Open Letter from Our Editor in Chief
...doubled, but your support will echo far beyond any measure. We're counting on you to help us prove that there's still a place for online writing untethered to traffic-driving algorithms...
On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
...in line. Tell the women on the receiving end of organized campaigns of online harassment, who fear for their safety and sanity, about the troubled, embattled tech-bro who can no...
Sunday Reading
...avoiding triggers rather than implementing zero-tolerance policies for racism or sexual assault.” Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online She Wanted to Do Her...
Celluloid Coven
...the whispers, Ouija magic, and love spells of inspired sleepovers. The Craft was a major pop phenomenon that trended, in a time before “online,” through clothes, books, and other RL...