In Space No One Can Hear You Spew
...its malignity on a distinctly human framework of Hell.) Implausible, sure, but the camera still might come undone from a fixity on the face. It does for the first minutes....
Bug Out
...home means to make sure it is free of “invasive species,” invaders of the insect variety, unwelcome guests. In anthropomorphizing the insect world, we allow ourselves to see bugs as...
On the Variety of Ways to Not Praise Charlie Hebdo
...line, as being against us, instead of with us. This is not what the victory of free speech looks like. Or if it is, we’re talking about a compulsory liberation,...
Turn Down for What?
...mechanization of domestic chores doesn’t free any time for the woman.” It’s a common misconception that capitalism simply means wages for labor; capital has used women’s unwaged labor to bear...
Sunday Reading, July 2, 2023
...same as it would be for the majority: abolition.”   Free Ebook: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition In light of the Biden...
Solitary Confinement
...an inner meaning. If a player is an expert seeking validated knowledge — if the player is a historian or philosopher searching for objective truth, or otherwise comes at the...
The Mirror-Slave Dialectic
...genuine recognition of the mirror as solely a handy tool for making sure we don’t have stray ink on our cheek. Not an oracle, not someone with control over us,...
The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
FREE PALESTINE. STOP COP CITY.
It is clear that Stop Cop City represents one of the conjunctural spear tips for expanding the existing systems of counterinsurgency that span Africa, Asia, and the Arab world.
Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World’s Fair
...Olympics might yield data points permitting a statistically valid interracial comparison. Although the poorly organized competitions were plainly a shambles, McGee and Sullivan did not hesitate to use the individual...
A Cute Idea
...JJ paints her portrait while Trecartin (as editor) manipulates the scene, adding an image of seeds exploding in atomic cloud formation, a bubble, mask icons and other camouflaging effects. Although...
Humid, All Too Humid
...fears that the “effects of climate change on infrastructure will not only be costly to our nation’s economy, they will also make us less secure as a nation.” Here it...
The Lights Are On but Nobody's Home
...music and app stores — while retaining control of the infrastructure and the data passing through it. (Transit fees will be assessed accordingly.) The writer and editor Matt Buchanan, lately...
Vol. 24 Editors' Note: War by Other Means
...$2 and get Self-Help (as well as free access to our archive of back issues) today. For a limited time, share a link to Bloodsport and download it for free...
Dating Games
...aspects of online dating encourage singles not to settle but to keep searching; after all, with “plenty of fish” (to name another online dating site), that mythical +5-in-all-categories partner has...
Buying the Future
...sovereign crises to human beings, and a elaborate contractual infrastructure lets them lock down their bets. These fruits of financial engineering will increasingly play a role in our economic lives....