The Loser Wins
...Winkelvoss twins’ inability to protect their positions makes them weak and undeserving of their privileges in a more “meritocratic” or “natural” free market system. The Social Network is a conservative...
False wins and the machine zone
...corporations, themselves changing amalgams of capital from different sectors, are experimenting with every possible combination of entertainment, gaming, mass media, and leisure.” In the Las Vegas laboratory, machine gambling figures...
Sunday Reading
...Erasures Excerpts from an ongoing discussion of race & sexual harassment in the online science community: Academic Whores and #RipplesOfDoubt The Worst Part is Not Scar Tissue Mentors and Sex:...
Sunday Reading
...are truly committed to diversity, they have to start paying attention to the rural poor.” “examples of the clumsy wielding of real power, which is organized with precision by the...
Sunday Reading
...black voices on crime" Why did Soul City fail?[radio 33:59] Kerim Friedman: Palestinian Anthropologists Speak: Dina Omar Israeli Violations of Palestinian Academic Freedom & Access to Education Is an Academic...
An Audio Letter
...different 2014 to a lost friend, can be found here along with the others, to be listened to in whatever park, room, or sub-bridge one so desires. A cloud hung...
Sunday Reading
...Body On the 13 Words That Made Me A Writer "I'm Also a We": Collective First Person and Cloud Subjects The Full Texture of a City Also see: Guts!...
Sunday Reading
...the Cloud The Rapture of the Nerds John Sexton Made Faculty Housing into a Duplex for his Son Paul Krugman and the Politics of Public Higher Education Kerim Friedman: The...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
Lessons of Engagement
...of the image.) The image of the whole earth provided a counterpoint to the mushroom cloud, which had become “a symbol for the collapse of Western civilization,” as Anselm Franke...
The Art of the Interview: Frederic Tuten
...Zedong with a kind of cloud bursting behind him. It’s very beautiful. That was two years before Andy Warhol made his first Mao. JH: What gets me is that, historically,...
Got No Shame, Got No Pride
...plain their intentional queerness: "I've learned to live with a cloud above my head," the singer declares, and then evokes two key concepts in the enunication of gay struggle: "Got...
Collector's Item
...To escape one's cultural banality, Groys suggests, one must "work professionally in the cultural field." Collecting things is a way to pretend to that status, especially if one approaches it...
Sunday Reading
...The Bloody State Gave Him The Power I Am The Transsexual Your Boyfriend Wants to Be With Stabbed to death by stigma State secrecy and opaque funding programs cloud public's...
Sunday Reading
...– The Nakba Files Europe’s Materialism: Infrastructures and Political Space – limn Homonationalism, Heteronationalism and LGBTI Rights in the EU – Public Seminar "the alternative vision of the left they...
Sunday Reading
...Frank Pasquale: How to read a health news story; watch out for aspirin. Too big to fail, too complex to regulate. Brave nun, Piketty-style pope. Time for some...