Sunday Reading
...in India today is similar to the McCarthy era': Partha Chatterjee Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online This Radical Librarian May Soon Run...
Sunday Reading
...Obama, the worldview of online hate groups has become more violent" "the vaunted FiveThirtyEight model is only as good as the data it runs through its algorithm" "Items that evoke...
The New Inquiry Vol. 51: Blogroll
...our archive of back issues) today. • • • A quote from the artist Ann Hirsch goes: “Whenever you put your body online, in some way you are in conversation...
Sunday Reading
...job? Sex work and serial killing Dear PETA, Shut the fuck up (NSFW pics) EFF, ACLU challenge California Prop 35's online surveillance requirement Oakland police only clearing about a third...
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...tech industries that some adjacent word such as "hip" is needed to describe those online voices who proceeded to hate on Long and deem Hodgman to be the cool one....
Do You Speak State?
...traditional world of statecraft. The League of Secessionist States links together 40 of these virtual countries, as do a number of other online forums. Organizations like the LoSS provide a...
#stopcreating
...a term paper from an online paper mill and sign their name to it, surely the most forbidden action in all of academia. Each student then must get up and...
Intimacy as Text; Twitter as Toungue
...But to figure physical touch as purely good leaves us unarmed, with a naive understanding of intimacy. The ubiquitous arguments against online sociality, the unwillingness to examine the emotional utility...
Haunted House
...to the others’ music online, but when asked, they chafed at the name witch house. Still, they cohered to shine for a brief moment in 2010. By March of that...
Frenemies
...you’re feeling ambivalent about your entire social life being moved online, there’s a reason for that. “Reimagining Networks,” an interview with digital-media scholar Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, explores the historical...
Sunday Reading
...made them pay for it" How does a new UC president get selected? (For starters, without staff or faculty representation) Some links on the CA online ed bill [pdf]: California...
Fact Check!
...U.S. — one that’s much more aggressive than the fact-checking of the past. Enabled by online data and information and encouraged by a polarized political discourse, facts — and especially...
Feral Memes
...West as its target. According to its online magazine Dabiq, ISIS seeks to “bring division to the world and destroy the grey zone” between this West and itself, echoing George...
Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
...We profile writers and run mini-workshops online. We're a support platform for African writers and publications featuring African writers. I guess I mainly just know SSDA from the anthologies! Could...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
Fans
...right.” In “Fifty Shades of Yellow,” Olivia Coy dives into the archives of online message boards left as forums for “tinhatters” to jockey for social position based on their inventive...