Follow The Leader
...their website harkens back to scrolls from the dark ages, or at least to Microsoft's 1997 computer game Age of Empires. The background is made to look like parchment in...
What is Aleppo?
...Borri demonstrates) have more to do with the analyst’s biases than any reality on the ground; what analysts itch to present as “ancient rivalries” are simply modern negotiations between various...
Novel Evil
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...case if, beforehand, he was making racist remarks. Which is it? Which do you see? Now, watch this six minute version, which is taken from the phone that he snatches...
Testing Beyond Control
...Network USA, a group that works to strengthen the power of women living with HIV. When Jones tested positive, she was homeless and living in a community of similarly marginalized...
Sunday Reading
...of Big Data "it's okay for the tech industry to scrape your data off every last surface you touch" The Myth of Magical Futures My Feminism Starts 300 Years Ago...
RUPTURES: Between the City and the Art World
...by thisistomorrow on the 12th December and archived on their website: thisistomorrow.info. For more information: [email protected] The full programme will be available on: www.rupturesinplaces.com To book FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruptures-between-the-city-and-the-art-world-tickets-19674357533...
Some observations on Taiye Selasi's "Driver"
...Ufortunately, the story is not open-access, though Audible.com.au appears to have a free download of the podcast version of it. It may surprise you to learn that Taiye...
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...pioneering Palestinian-Israeli group, for the first time. DAM was “giving the kids something besides Molotov cocktails and suicide bombs,” she said.Rappers were the only people speaking truth to power in...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Open Wide
...user base by selling itself to Elsevier, a company with a reputation for resisting open-access publication at every turn. Undeterred, Mendeley still pronounces that its "real power lies in what...
Black Sun Rising
...Today’s New Right and techno-futurist circles are echoing the unorthodox beliefs of Nazi cosmologists. Shortly after the National Socialist party consolidated their power, a writer named Peter Bender...
Fitted
...prove it cares. In December 2014, FitBit released a pledge stating that it “is deeply committed to protecting the security of your data.” Still, we may soon be obliged to...
A Time for Treason
...(PDF) What You’ve Got Is a Revolution: Black Women’s Movements for Black Power by Ashley Ford (forthcoming, 2017) Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex | Interview with...
The Virtual Watchers
...During the course of my investigation I found quite a lot of unexpected data. Surprisingly, around 10% of its users were watching from international sources, coming from 192 different countries,...
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
...implies case as container as well as case as event. “Complex Cases” slips in meaning as a material or discursive enclosures—as plastic containers that protect and make durable data written...