Distracted by Attention
...for social and professional life, and the proliferation of channels, streams, and texts clamoring to be consumed, many have heralded the rise of the "attention economy," in which views, clicks,...
Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)
...has behind him an unpaid worker (mother, wife, sister…) who makes sure that her can present himself at work every morning in a decent condition. This discourse is valid also...
Living Chess
...databases with old and new games. The free chessgames and chessbase sites are widely used by players from the beginner to expert level, while other commercial databases are behind paywalls....
The Novelty of African Poetry
...that must pass through universities in the UK and the US before it can exist, most of me is simply glad that we have the luxury of asking that question....
Socializing the Dark Web
...is by far the easiest of the tools needed to access the dark web that I've tried. It's really just download, extract, and double-click, then you're on your way. True,...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...a peculiar set of materials. In this case, the name of that project I stopped was related to a messy field of thinking that only coalesced through the practice of...
Agents Without Agency
...ignorance isn’t an excuse for indolence. Ambler makes a point of contrasting his protagonists with the professional spies who come to their aid. The seasoned agents insist on both the...
The Postcapital Economy
...but whether it serves a greater social purpose. The Chinese government will consequently fund contractors to develop public infrastructure and other massive social projects, as well as backstop private enterprise...
Objects of Derision
...and inflected that breakdown. No, that general relation continues on, “untouched and uninjured,” finding new sites and materials. And it does so until the passage of the general through the...
Time Is a Killer
...and, in conjunction with her lack of professional success, is often described as a “middle-aged woman,” struggling to get what’s hers. This scene of doubled theatrics illustrates how in order...
Mara
...else. Every week, he secures his travel pass around his neck, holds you before he leaves, nods to your sister, brother, and mother, and heads to town. He needs a...
All Housing Doesn’t Matter
An interview with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
Glossary
...the moment in which the incompatibility of material and categories roars, creeps, or seeps, not into view, but against view. Such that materials - such as a pile of flesh,...
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
...by death itself. Unless we plan to revolutionize our healthcare infrastructure by dismantling it, as certain critics have suggested in response to the progressive “medicalization of life,” we might instead...
The Souls of Drone Folk
...book. Given the heavy-handed symbolism of Eastwood’s version—cutting back and forth, again and again, between white mother and child and Iraqi mother and child, just to make sure you absolutely...