Everything Is a Target
...Every country that has a nuclear weapons program has a vast quantity of nuclear waste. Then there’s nuclear waste that comes out of nuclear power. And every nuclear power plants...
Cookie Cutters
...trying to build up a working version of you. This is where multiplicity appears in full force. To opt out, you will have to go to the industry’s opt-out page,...
Podcast Out
...of understanding, offering bits of data to support preconceived notions about who is broken, wrong, or just annoying. The behavior they encourage--if they do that at all--is in the register...
Beyond Terrordome
...Hill reports on how college admissions officers have begun to consult Facebook to research applicants, drawing on survey data collected by Kaplan, the test-prep company. Hill pulled this passage from...
Posers
...Posers, our contributors explore the complexities of power and performance in everyday life. “SIMPARTY” by Fei Liu, Dan Taeyoung and Francis Tseng generates two parallel parties—a “real” party, which TNI...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 62: Posers
Posers get glory while incurring little to no pain. Isn't that the dream?
Destroy All Monsters
...that to reject its version of modernity is treated as rejecting technological modernity as such. The response of the state to modern catastrophes is militarized securitization. In the film, Japan...
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
...That was painfully profound. In a bid to end the week long #RuReferenceList protest, his actions proved that the protest was necessary. That action pointed to the gendered power that...
Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Little Girl?
...power of the young-girl in Sucker Punch comes from this dialectical ambiguity: her presence in the film is both an invocation of her own rape (murder), and at the same...
Hi Haters!
...Adapted version of talk given at University of Southern Maine, November 16, 2012. Image by imp kerr. What does it mean to be “microfamous”? Is that term even...
How to Talk About the Weather
...biological agents. Humans have messed around with their environments, with the plants and animals surrounding them for millennia. But we’ve not had the collective power to actually transform the basic...
The Limit Does Not Exist
An interview with Marxist philosopher Joshua Moufawad-Paul about the science of revolution at a time when socialism is supposedly becoming mainstream
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...three female figures undergoing further epigenetic self-generation, which reinforces the relationship of the feminine, natural world with vital power. Plate 57. Relief etching print from Jerusalem , William Blake. (Published...
Speak/Now
...us the literal truth about the actual person Taylor Swift, while a more sophisticated version would assume some continuity of the persona portrayed in her various songs, or at least...
The Trouble with Digital Conservatism
...is being reduced by the illusion of bits,” he writes) he never goes as far as blaming the existing power structure. Far from attributing these ills to the imperatives of...
Let Them Drink Blood
...giving SpaceX a leg-up against Boeing. With control over big data, the economics of life and death, and his own sandbox planet to build as he sees fit, Thiel is...