City Hunger
...a “professional flyer”—flight being, for Perez-Gomez, a road to nowhere—so that she becomes impervious to physical desire. She is unable to understand gesture, emotions, or poetics. When she meets Polyphilo,...
Subscription Drive
...a year and 65% under the age of 30. While all of TNI’s content is eventually made available to readers for free and under a Creative Commons license, The New...
Under Our Skins
...this distributed-surveillance infrastructure has overlaid the older technologies and modalities of communication and socialization. There is very little outside of this particular text, and non-participation isn’t a meaningful option. Unless...
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs
African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi
...terms it) sits comfortably in acclaimed literature and is hurled out of passing cars. And it flourishes in digital spaces. None of these spaces are safe or free. Fanon describes...
Ethel Mairet: A Pioneer of Weaving Technology
...links procure raw materials for factories in London churning out mass-produced goods; hundreds of workers perform repetitive tasks that produce lackluster objects; cottage industries are on the verge of collapse....
Running on Empty
...wrong with conscious efforts toward physical fitness and self-improvement. But to bring the associations and expectations of professional sports into the daily lives of ordinary people is a recipe for...
Twilight of the Mentors
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love my gatekeeper
Dragged Down by the Stone
...patchwork of much smaller municipal generation sites), and the stakeholders' mirage-like horizon of anticipation for returns on their investment (the long-term, capital-intensive infrastructure project would produce dividends only after several...
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...few years after college—I had a Kerouac-wannabe boyfriend and a series of outdoor jobs—but by my mid-twenties, in the company of increasingly professional peers and a kinder, more adult, boyfriend,...
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...still be handled and used every day? Sure, keys fall of computers and we just hit the button below. Headphones die in one ear, and we rig them with twist-ties...
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
...materials, and to oversee packaging, shipping, logistics, and transportation for automotive, pharmaceutical, electronics, and packaging industries. All of these systems are only possible because digital images are machine-readable and do...
Be Aware: Nick Kristof’s Anti-Politics
...come to demand it weekly. Note also that one of the main actions one can take is to simply write on Kristof’s blog in support of, well, awareness. Keeping readers...
Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes
...of the U.S. torture report, Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, tells us little that we did not know: the U.S. tortured Arab and Muslim...
Natural's Not In It
...and all of its freedom-thwarting attributes, are a consequence of a grain-based agricultural society. The low-fi libertarian website LewRockwell.com features pages upon pages of articles about the Paleo lifestyle written...