Sowing Scarcity
...example. 3-D printers that will let us download and print out a new pair of shoes. Artificial intelligences that can comb through medical databases and diagnose our obscure ailments. Synthetic...
Authentic sharing
..."sharing economy"—the illusion it crates that everyone is willing to share with you, but all you have to do is download an app. Meanwhile, the sharing economy's vision of everyone...
29.97 Frames of Spring/Sec, Original Dance Mix by SMPTE
...(SMPTE), a DJ based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. You can stream it live here, or download it for free from the Soundcloud site. We've been listening to it all week...
The Military Industrial Complex Yard Sale
...castle out there, inhabited, I hope, by a santasuit-wearing cop holding an assault rifle in one hand and a dental spatula in the other. Download the original data here....
Sunday Reading
...“When Zionism started…it would espouse all these anti-Jewish ideas, including scientific anti-Semitism as valid.” “East Asians have dark hair and eat with chopsticks. But there is no causal relationship.” “For...
The End of the World as We Know It
...and Scorpion King, it’s whose leadership and authority is the most valid, etc.) Instead, you are meant to identify with the group, despite its internal unpleasantness, because you, like them,...
Together We Are None
...there’s no allotted space for a master lip-syncher to do that, so we implicitly say it’s not valid. But you have to ask why. These guys were incredibly convincing performers...
Past Perfecting
...on what is absent, not merely what is captured and enhanced. Similarly, Asger Carlson, in his series Hester, begins with simply lit portraits and, with the aid of computer programs,...
Political Language on Police States and Political Language
...have no conjuring power "when we really do need them." Ok, sure. I will concede that point. But let me now compartmentalize and diminish the consequences of the point Exum...
Kill Your Martyrs
...we in the class nor our teacher seemed to know. Had I known at the time, in my teenaged righteousness, I would have been outraged. Now, I’m less sure. Even...
Alone Again Or
...had been mixed up with empathy and guilt?” What Heti understands, and what the novelists Roiphe condemns don't, is that desire is still valid, still real, even if it’s socially...
Beauty Backfire
...off completely, thankfully—that is, thankfully for my “ick” threshold, not simply for vanity, as I wound up accessorizing my manicure with a waterproof Band-Aid—but it was troublesome for days, and...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...if children aren’t properly housed, fed, and loved, if children’s context, individual abilities and history aren’t respected. It’s not like marginalized people can just waltz into great free schools that...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...How can I deal with these messages from media and even family that I’m not a fully valid person because I’m a single black woman in her 30s? I...
Death Is Not The End
...a point of no return: Tolstoy’s writing is no longer in dialogue with the Church, but is an outright rejection of the Church as a valid moral institution. According to...
Death is Not the End
...no longer in dialogue with the Church, but is an outright rejection of the Church as a valid moral institution. According to Tolstoy, the teachings of Christ are themselves “the...