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...
Sunday Reading
...self-demolition built into the Swiss national infrastructure Scheherazadenfreude * Me: Google Search Tips Can Apple Refuse to Sell a Laptop to an Iranian Citizen? Maybe. I was sexually assaulted three...
Violent Motion, 1
...and provides its materials. It's like what Romano Alquati heard in his interviews with machinists at the Fiat factories. Automation for them hardly meant deskilling or relaxation but rather a...
Bad Housekeeping
...home will not be built from scratch, but retrofitted to existing infrastructure. The smart house, in this sense, is a clever fiction. “Industry people today don’t actually want the home...
Jagged Little Pill
...out to be, and usually milder. But a completely natural life free from ill health effects is not something you can build with a few simple consumption choices. Hormonal contraception...
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Hot Babe
...only the professional Hot Babe adorned all major media outlets; now social media makes of everyone a Hot Babe, should they be willing. What is private, secret, is not the...
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
..."The other communities, they cannot differentiate us. For example, during the night time the police just come and take the people to the police station" International Business Times: "More than...
The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
...searching for the implications of the white imagination and instead celebrated its racist and colonialist fantasies?” III. The white man understands everything better than you, okay? He will use fictional...
Fear, Pain, and the Representation of Women’s Wartime Trauma
...roles that men and women were expected to perform in wartime would help determine whose wartime suffering was considered valid and worthy of medical study, and whose would be overlooked,...
Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel
...— is because I’m back in New York, relatively static, searching-for-bellwether New York. And McGill, the neoliberal American university by proxy, the phantom Canadian girlfriend of the Ivies, did significantly...
(Pro)Creating Science: The Parenting Metaphor, Gender, and Scientific Memory
...on this list, if you keep searching, you will eventually run out of mothers. For instance, there is no mother of empiricism; if you google that phrase you will receive...
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.