Patriots
...more disruptive technological venture, Sam Lavigne offers C-SPAN 5, where you can catch all the latest “unadulterated hits of U.S. political dysfunction.” It’s C-SPAN for the overbusy gig chasers in...
All Eyez on Not-Me
...latest generation (though certainly not the first) to have our nostalgia commodified, and Holopac seems to be as defining an opening moment for it as any. As we cross some...
The Newer Inquirers
...The team behind The New Inquiry is always mutating and evolving, and it's about time we reveal the latest additions. Meet our new friends: Adrian Chen Associate Editor As...
Sunday Reading
...Bridge Pranksters Is About Embarrassment, Not Counterterrorism Israeli-Palestinian crisis: why this latest conflict cannot be considered a sideshow Israel-Gaza conflict: The secret report that helps Israelis to hide facts The...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of November 3, 2019)
...hopes on delivery drones, which will dot city skylines by next summer "Nibbling and cribbling ...": Lunching alone at work the latest productivity hack? The in-flight meal hall of shame...
Anne Boyer & Matias Viegener @ The Poetry Project 10/2
...A reading featuring: Anne Boyer | Works include Anne Boyer’s Good Apocalypse, The 2000?s, My Common Heart, The Romance of Happy Workers and more. Her latest work, A Form...
Fan Nonfiction
Heroic tales about video-game production mask how the hobby holds both its audience and performers captive
Staying on Their Toes
...Musicians pace to and fro, humming snatches of the latest sonata. Actors grimace and puff their chests and declare their love in stentorian tones. White and soft as cream puffs,...
Lies and Videotape
...male instructors, intermittently explores nature, and talks about bonding with professional negroes whose highest possible aspiration was a job at the post office. What the accumulation of these moments provides...
This Week in Art Crime
...the amount it cost to fix the plexiglass that Noll broke, as well as hiring a professional to restore Banksy's "angel boy" piece, which was partially covered with spray paint....
Love Bites
...to force the tooth's roots into "a flattened piece of platinum wire" will be necessary. On this tricky procedure depend not only a young lady's fine looks but his professional...
Ambitious Conditions: Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go"
...and relying” and sub-professional labor like selling flowers—floats totally beneath Freudenberger’s radar: Freudenberger finds implausible the pride that demands work over a hand-out, a kind of pride that must be...
Kenya’s Security Act: The Human
...Kenya—its status as industry and profession, as world framing and world constricting—makes me very uneasy. It’s not clear that professional activists speak the same language or have the same aims...
Cleaning Up
...that makes sense of time and space, future and past. Writing is no different, a professional mirage built on the promise of doing something materially unnecessary. In the same way...
Sunday Reading
...of Overemployment The Journey of Everywoman The 1% Had a Fantastic 2010 Exotic Dancers in 1890 and the Plump Body Ideal » Sociological Images Weaponizing the Body Politic Professional Boredom...
On Hurricanes and Beauty
...in parts of the city that have lost power—you can take away our power but you can't take away our polish!) In any case, the Professional Beauty Association has a...