The Enemy of All Mankind
...Upon investigation of the fleet’s movements since 2014, the analyst discovered that its real location could be uncovered by adding 85.3925 degrees to the longitude of the broadcast--placing it squarely...
Hate and Basketball
...Asians are dismissed as harmless, while those towards blacks are deemed beyond the pale. Download an extended version of this essay here. What is striking in all this is that...
The Passion of Private Manning
...op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal and National Review. — It was Ray McGovern, a retired CIA senior analyst, who brought the above two leaks to my attention. McGovern...
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
...under the counter-terrorism rubric the community has become the security forces' focal point. For example, after the recent blast in the Nairobi suburb of Eastleigh, the police arrested over 600...
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics
...Bohr, sometimes the real Margrethe Bohr who was handed a draft or called into the room, and sometimes an imagined version of Margrethe Bohr who Niels evoked in conversation, came...
The Lossless Self
...recording since the start, for profit. You can buy a vinyl version of his Disintegration Loops, which digitized the sound of old tape loops literally crumbling, for $358. Fidelity, in...
Dancing Days
...girls gone bad, making them parables of what danger awaits women in the seedy underbelly of strip clubs. The Wrestler is a notable exception, because Darren Aronofsky and Robert Siegel...
Environmental Racism in St. Louis
...of long-term community documentation. While it is a tedious task with seemingly distant benefits, collecting decisively conclusive aggregate data that uplifts and centers the experiences of marginalized communities could turn...
Syria and the Left: A Call to Arms
...sharpen the dividing lines. All states that rain death on Syrians must be opposed proactively. Such resistance can include protests outside symbols of U.S. and Russian power, like embassies and...
The Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...This is an expanded version of a text that I wrote for the occasion of A Cathode Ray Seance: The Haunted Worlds of Nigel Kneale in NYC this...
Graphic Interface
...the series version, there was going to be a girl’s side. The boy’s side was going to be all the testing for games, sci-fi and violence. The girl’s side would...
Sunday Reading
...against it. Don't call me professor. “Behind every model and every data set is a political process that chose that data and built that model.” Experimental hair archeology. Or, on...
Me Meme
...revealed in A/B tests of competing headlines. Hence the “real version” of any story’s packaging derives from the circulation process, with rejected versions doing nothing to compromise the winning one....
The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
Call for Papers: Theorizing the Web 2015
...to emphasize the technological at the expense of the social and result in partial understandings of the web, disconnected from questions of power and social justice—and from public discourse. Useful,...