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...
Pinterest and the acquisitive gaze
...freely as detached signifieds. It permits us to let an accumulative, shopping mentality govern everything we do online. This was already implicit in the principle of bookmarking; you claim pages...
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...
Woke Up Dead
...currency. I’m not enough of a curmudgeon to suggest that online communication is inherently without value, or that our online interactions aren’t authentic, “real” expressions of human bonding. I think...
American Sajaegi
...wealthy clients’ behest. These firms offer services that are not so different from those advertised by bot formers selling SoundCloud plays and Instagram followers via online marketplaces like Fiverr. A...
Vinyl re-enchantment
...prove that I am "better" than those social pleasures of validation that are now so readily sought for online. I want records so I can try to remind myself that...
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Place Matters
...Google Making Us Stupid?,” have found that we do not truly engage in online content, preferring to “power browse.” We scan the headlines for information or search for items of...
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
...large volume of support she received online and the activity of researchers earnestly devoted to this technology. While this tension between knowing and exceeding our physical limitations is perennial, it...
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...the poems not attributed to individual poets? When the project went online for public view (as opposed to being created and shared on listserves) the general consensus was that the...
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...readers like me who follow online first, is its proximity and, as you write early on, its polyphony. For example, I've connected to scenes in Robert Bresson movies I'm actually...
Place Matters
...that we do not truly engage in online content, preferring to “power browse.” We scan the headlines for information or search for items of temporary entertainment value. Our minds are...
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
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...
Labor Pains
...of Oxfordshire, UK, a commissioning couple featured in the Daily Mail in 2012. To couples like these, surrogates are presented as transnational reproductive-service workers, their job description posted online and...
The Viral Virus
...you know for sure whether you have anxiety after probing the possibility online? Pharmaceutical companies certainly hope to persuade you. Self-diagnosis on sites like WebMD can drive drug-company profits, and...