"The desire to feel like an individual is a false need instigated by capitalism to make us productive in the social factory and to make us consume more in pursuit of a reified authenticity."
The tech establishment loves transparency but the U.S. classifies more information than ever. Online government transparency initiatives are less about revealing the state than making us more comfortable revealing ourselves
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects shall not be violated unless it would be difficult to determine whether individual detainees fall within the proposed exemption. No Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause and describing the place to be searched except in cases where the seriousness
Research has proven what college freshmen have known since the days of the "co-ed": Booze makes you think you're hot stuff. But while revealing that at the core many of us think we're ravishing, the study essentially neglects women.
"Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Lil B is a twenty-two-year-old rapper/rap deconstructionist who has recorded more than 3,000 songs over the past five years,…
I once spent two weeks at a New York publisher’s office transcribing a ghost writer’s recorded interviews with comedienne Jenny McCarthy. He was writing her 'autobiography.'
The lost art of not looking good, beauty products for babies, Estee Lauder's turban, and the compelling argument for chick-watching as subversive cultural rebellion. (Early April Fool's!)
The more material illuminating that feminist exists not because men want to keep women down but because the status quo has an investment in keeping people divided and with diffuse power in order to keep power concentrated, the better.
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.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.