The Souls of Drone Folk
...make a good sniper. The story told in that trailer is a version of the anecdote with which Chris Kyle begins his book, a prologue entitled “Evil in the Crosshairs.”...
A History of Like
...However, the underlying complexity of cognition and affect actually reinforces the value of likability as a measurable aspect of ads. The value of like is that it abstracts and condenses...
Love Worth Fighting For
...of Love, the Beatles were commissioned to write a song to serve as Britain’s contribution to Our World, the first live TV program to be transmitted around the world by...
Bad Faith
...litany of ongoing colonial conditions on Indian reservations remains relevant today. The annotated version in this issue connects Indians of All Tribes’ concerns to historical and contemporary incidents of Indigenous...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 66: Bad Faith
...litany of ongoing colonial conditions on Indian reservations remains relevant today. The annotated version in this issue connects Indians of All Tribes’ concerns to historical and contemporary incidents of Indigenous...
Joe Cool
...a curated selection of mainly store-brand versions of everything a health-conscious consumer might need, from organic brown-rice-and-quinoa fusilli pasta to organic garden lasagna, that promise to be consistently good enough,...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)
...well as to the historic and bright time of insurrectionary Communes. This power is also ambiguous; the imaginary of the Paris Commune, for example, is used both to give a...
Hal
Delayed reflections on Jim Jarmusch and Talal Asad
Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
...new book Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World. Here, an exchange with New Inquiry editor Malcolm...
Florence Nightingale: Of Myths and Maths
...her illustrations that made these numbers compelling to the politicians with the power to implement reform. Nightingale transformed data visualization. She realized that pages and pages of tables of numbers...
Charity Assets
...idea that capital and sharing are natural complements went wrong. Open Government Data is yet another area where commerce and sharing sound like they mix nicely: making government data available...
Glassy-Eyed
...Google Glass, they would be capturing that data as standard. That would be quite powerful — to be able to say why people buy things." Such information could be used...
Signs of ephemerality
...other people are invited to tour, a work in progress that will never be completed, as the archive can house more and more data. Identity is understood less as a...
Dummy Discards a Heart
...with Facebook, generating data that the companies can either sell to marketers or use themselves to better program your interaction. As John Ferrara, author of Playful Design, explains in this...
Miracle Devices
The medical-device industry has been mobilized against the patients it purportedly serves
National Disgrace
...warnings, even teenagers are covered, and there are no arrest warrants. It also has all data readily and easily available. No place currently has that, though perhaps Massachusetts comes closest....