Sunday Reading
...Erasures Excerpts from an ongoing discussion of race & sexual harassment in the online science community: Academic Whores and #RipplesOfDoubt The Worst Part is Not Scar Tissue Mentors and Sex:...
This Week in Art Crime
...this year for the project—the first time in July for attempting to raise funds online to construct the kayak, and the second time in December for allegedly distributing the code...
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
Sunday Reading
...Traps” Tour Goldmines Students Avoid ‘Difficult’ Online Courses Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm (Graham) Greene on Benzedrine Many students stay away from online...
Editors' Note, Vol. 41: Fans
...violent organizing that sees its greatest historical resonance with the far right.” In “Fifty Shades of Yellow,” Olivia Coy dives into the archives of online message boards left as forums...
The Year of Magical Thinking
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC
You Belong Here, Beloved Reader - An Interview with Diriye Osman
"I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session"
The Myth of Cyberspace
...these images have become the primary lens through which we view and evaluate our online activity. For this reason, tracing the genealogy of the cyberspace concept reveals much about present...
Cosmopolitican, or Cosmetics as Police Regime
...particular harassment by the volunteer vice squad and hundreds of others like it is because 'Manicure Girl' filmed the exchange and posted the video online; the CPVPV later filed a...
Up for debate
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
Black Sun Rising
...futurists. These “bizarre fascisms,” as the essay refers to them, have emerged online, in an odd collusion of far-right bloggers, men’s rights advocates, former Occupy Wall Street figureheads Micah White...
Opening the Gate
...publishing houses on the continent, so our books can get to people. I’m not a big fan of online stuff, because I like books, the physical thing. The internet can...
Dummy Discards a Heart
...demand the technologies have instigated, and they argue for a continuity between behavior that seems to me antithetical. Playing bridge online is pretty much the opposite of playing at a...
Cloudy Logic
...As Latanya Sweeny has shown in her study “Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery,” Google searches for names “racially associated” with black people return promoted results that imply the person you’re...
Sunday Reading
...privatization "In response to a question concerning the questionable educational value of some of his institution’s new online classes, [San Jose State President Mohammad H.] Qayoumi said the following: 'It...
Selfie-Correction
...mocked for the unrestrained qualities of their online presence. It is not so much authenticity that the show demands, but compliance with a set of social norms, regarding self-control and...