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...
The Reluctant Writer
...does not elevate nor imprison her. She is free from the identity politics that would compress all instinct, intellect, and intuition into slogans. Her feminism is always without derision or...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Intimacy as Text; Twitter as Toungue
...us with a legitimate freedom—we can now choose whether or not our body will figure into any given social interaction. Simply kissing more is not a recipe for greater, more...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Vol. 75 Editors’ Note: Pandemic
This is the editor’s note for TNI Vol. 75: PANDEMIC
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...
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....