Sunday Reading
...life nathan jurgenson "The commodity markets of capitalism have made being truly different as difficult as space travel, and being merely different as easy as online shopping" "The more labor...
Our Boys Gone Wild
...into the service of the state or are shaped by these demands, both in terms of surveillance and populist patriotism. For example, in 2014 an online campaign took off in...
Algorithms Allowed
...and broad dissemination, on its embeddedness in online infrastructures, dictating how information appears on platforms, administering levels of access, organizing the data that organizes our lives. But rather than suggest...
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
Let Us Eat Cake
...online. Anirudh Sri, on the other hand, said he found the whole thing "weird." Though quick to note that the design would have little bearing on his life at Cal,...
Violence
...inmates uphold the settler ultraviolence at the core of Texas’s mythos through their last words, which live online in public perpetuity. After reading through all 538 statements on the state’s...
The Novelty of African Poetry
...of it is online: You can buy Juliane Okot Bitek’s just published collection—and you should—but you can also find a lot of that material on her blog, along with a...
Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00
...would earn global returns far beyond this. (Indeed, its stunted release is by no means a threat to this: it's already hit $40 million in online sales and streaming, making...
How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
The Secret Shopper
...online bulletin board (often after a brief training and vetting period). Jobs are posted and claimed constantly, meaning the shopper has to spend a good deal of time online, especially...
Editors' Note, Vol. 56: Violence
...executes, including their final statements. Hannah Bowlus investigates how doomed inmates uphold the settler ultraviolence at the core of Texas’s mythos through their last words, which live online in public...
Violence Is Mine
...in as consequence-free entertainment, proves to be part of a wider material network of real violence and the precarization of labor. Even apparently placid, disembodied life online always has violence...
Nice Book Reviews
...now, online magazines (some which formerly started out as blogs.) I mean, think about the networks of visibility on what is considered book talk worthy enough to be retweeted, reblogged,...
There Are No Accidents
...that the conditions of artistic production online tends to instigate, where the circulation of an image begins to trump its content, and serial production militates against patiently crafted masterworks? Can...
Splay Attention
...asked his dancers to send him their favorite dance videos they’d found online, and worked with them to develop dances from the movements in them. (Submissions featured Martha Graham, Beyoncé...