Dumb Computers, Smart Cops
...which they strive to free themselves from determination, taking themselves out of the passive voice by eliminating the code that speaks them. And, of course, the speakers as well... As...
Sunday Reading: April 30, 2023
...that we’d like to introduce the latest iteration of Sunday Reading––a biweekly newsletter from the editors at TNI. Consider it a dispatch from our open tabs. We invite you to...
Sunday Reading: July 23, 2023
...the paper’s right-wing shift. Told through an anonymized journalist’s experience working at the Times, “Harper” watches pseudo-scientific anti-trans talking points repeatedly pass through the paper’s "rigorous" fact check mechanism; anti-trans...
Games of Truth
...of ancient Greek texts to examine the relation of the “self” to public truth-telling. What did it mean to “know thyself,” as the Delphic oracle advised? What procedures guaranteed the...
Nia in Two Acts
A year after her murder, reflecting on Nia Wilson reveals the ways black girls struggle against erasure while also reveling in opacity
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir
In this exclusive excerpt from their new book Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas contextualize the twin-snake history of Israel and India and how the occupation of Palestine informs the occupation of Kashmir.
Novel Evil
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
The Lives of Others
...by provoking a fascinating torrent of appreciations and abuse from Roth, Luc Sante, and James Wood, among many others. In The Rumpus, Lincoln Michel made the salient point that many...
Streaming Services
...then. Blogs, torrent trackers, and forums formed a kind of network of interconnected passion projects devoted to the archiving, discussion, and celebration of music. At first, the vast majority of...
Sunday Reading
...a country full of people named after Tamerlane The Idol in the Archive: “Past was the most common currency and the most valid emotion that I ever encountered growing up.”...
Mapping the Sneakernet
...paper, USB sticks and Bluetooth. Solar-powered computer kiosks in rural areas can have simple capabilities for connecting to mobile phones’ SD cards for upload and download. Technology training courses can...
Face Me, I Face You
...meeting texts to say he’s running late, so when I land in Trafalgar Square I pass through the National Portrait Gallery’s revolving doors into its dark entryway. I’ve come for...
Sunday Reading
...Former president of Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp: "Fuck the compliance area – procedures, schmecedures” “Hedge-fund master of flash trading poured a clandestine $1 million into ads attacking 'Ground Zero...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...did not change the political system, for example. We continue [living] in a capitalist country with the same economic system. The Turkish model: the Brazilian military police acquires high-pressure water...
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...After purchasing digital music, you can download it in whatever format you like, as many times as you want, as long as the site exists. You can listen to music...
Enjoy the Rules
...various utopian assumptions, the folly of thinking that the Internet means we can have something for nothing — that we can freely download anything and everything without incurring a social...