The Conservatism of Emoji
...study, it’s increasingly clear that quantifying, tracking and manipulating emotion is an important part of the company’s business model. “By selecting your current activity instead of merely writing it out,...
Solving Desire
...nausea, fatigue, sleepiness, insomnia, and dangerously low blood pressure, particularly when combined with alcohol consumption (even just two glasses of wine). Despite these side effects, many clinicians and practitioners have...
Ms. America
...whether it’s patriotism or Stockholm syndrome; she’s for those who don’t care about the difference. “Millenials and #Merica”—an MTV study released this month found that while “young people possess a...
Art of the Obituary: Lee Kuan Yew
...these themes in the hundreds of encounters I had with him during international conferences, study groups, board meetings, face-to-face discussions and visits at each other’s homes over 45 years. He...
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...the text into the feedback loop of genre is acknowledged simultaneously with the way this same mystification is revealed as bad faith. Perhaps the strongest example in Miéville comes from...
Guest Post: The Ripple Effect
...my neck out. I was kind. I made dinner. I cleaned up communal physical space. I put down whatever I was working on, attending instead to the emotional crisis at...
Militain Us
...The ultimate goal of the training is for the individual to become “stress inoculated,” so that they can engage in the violence of war with composure, and hopefully prevent any...
Two Tears for Suboxone
...drugs like suboxone, over abstinence-based recovery is overwhelming. According to a recent study, opiate addicts who use the method I used have an 86% chance of relapsing within two months....
U.S.Ai.
...on human rights. This is certainly how America likes to think of itself -- as a global force for liberal enlightenment values like free speech -- especially in comparison with...
Sunday Reading
...a 55% chance." The public option for higher education Beyond tenured allies "It’s not Ray Kelly’s right to free speech that’s in danger, it’s [student protesters']." 1.2 million K-12 students...
Healing History
...common for them to employ desperate measures to ensure a male heir. In the British monarchy alone, records show innumerable examples of “royal bastards”—illegitimate children of the Royal family going...
Bad Vibes
...of creative passion. As Stella Becerril explains, “The biggest challenge, both when I came on as the formal community organizer for Study Hall and then as my own free agent...
Stone-Age Nostalgia
...to the trendiness of foraged foods at high-end restaurants—all indicate a widespread cultural nostalgia for what some interdisciplinary scholars call “deep history,” the study of the development of early humans...
Vol. 72 Editors’ Note: Bad Vibes
A rough cut of emotion and body language, what we might one day call “our affective commons”
Birds of a Ledger
...along axes of virile competition and passive enjoyment, technological innovation (first the shotgun and later binoculars and spotting scopes) and (increasingly melancholic) natural splendor, actuarial listmaking and intimate and immediate...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of February 9, 2020)
...the obvious": eating out is bad for you, new study finds IĂm always taking suggestions for food-related articles, projects, thought experiments to feature. Send them to @AusterityKitchn, and let me...