Wizards of Like
...the News Feed into commercial broadcast television and to guarantee a suitably passive audience for it. Like TV has long done, they're just giving the people what they want....
Disgorge the Cash
...is making something gets bought out or bullied into becoming a company whose mission is making payments to shareholders. Apple is only an especially dramatic example. But the familiarity of...
Vol. 75 Editors’ Note: Pandemic
This is the editor’s note for TNI Vol. 75: PANDEMIC
CHAT ROOM: Activist Microcelebrities
...hinges on whether attention is truly necessary resource or by-product, on whether political control simply depends on controlling attention span of "the masses" nathan: right right rob: My utopia has...
The Devil You Know
...genre in service of left-wing allegory. It was no diversionary spectacle,but simply a straightforward presentation of the horrors of a triumphant far-right. Activist in orientation, bohemian in sensibility, Hellblazer was...
Wild Wild East
...as two other Worlds’ Fairs). In various popular culture depictions, he is at once lauded for his fierce commitment to defending the freedom of his people and reviled for his...
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...zone—by wearing a dowdy outfit that conceals my body, or simply by being in my own world for a moment—there’s a catcall there to remind me that even if I’m...
Anthropocene Realism
...the continued brutalization and expropriation of Native land and communities. This history has only been extended by the current boom, the most extreme example being the spike in violence against...
Sunday Reading
...money off your misery How professors use their time: faculty time allocation The great graduate school experiment in Utopian socialism Decolonisation of the Mind Capitalism simply isn't working and here...
Magical Surpluses
...cornerstone of the entrepreneurial project, and to some degree, Forleo and Bernstein are simply keeping pace with the new terrain of the market. Yet both women are also spokespersons for...
History Made Queasy
...peddling unsound victuals. To them, it was simply a matter of self-preservation. Rotten food threatened state security. Contaminated grain proved the decisive factor in Athens’ defeat in the Peloponnesian War....
Tender Potatoes
...Chantal Akerman’s films show how murderous violence always lurks in the mundanity of the domestic WHEN Chantal Akerman’s hyperrealist homage to ritualistic domesticity, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce,...
Dating robots
...satisfying, this brings pleasure we might call love if it lasts long enough. When novels first became a commercial product, there was a fairly prevalent fear that they were addictive,...
The White Market
...our chemists are too ethical. The illegal drug market simply doesn't reward peerless expertise in the same way celebrity cooking shows do. The idea that people will always pay more...
Wes Anderson's Arrested Development
...creative will under the oppressive weight of tradition and history. Break free and do your own thing. It's a beautiful idea, and one I believe in, but as right as...
History Against the Grain
...and Empire would have benefitted from a closer examination of the exploitative economic, social, and ecological practices that made middling cuisine possible. For nothing is gotten for free—and this is...