Announcing Ayesha Siddiqi
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Tinderization of Feeling
...as the artist Marc Horowitz did in the project The Advice of Strangers, in which he obeyed an anonymous online community. Similarly, the app Free makes the process of meeting...
Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
...to find whatever fetish you can think of online, it’s just so easy for teens and children to think of the most ridiculous thing possible, look it up, and see...
Myth of the Garbage Patch
...Tourism,” seven-day trash cleanup vacations, half of which is spent online. Clothing made from recycled plastics is available from brands like G Star Raw and Patagonia, but these articles still...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.12.13
...audience, no matter the media, has an erotic element. Like anyone who commands attention, a writer controls and manipulates bodies, but as this new form of online writing — so...
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
Dating in the Expanded Field
...two. Innumerable technologies—online porn, Tinder, Grindr, camgirls, Chatroulette, and Snapchat—allow us to engage in forms of sex that leave the body untouched. The addition of not-celibacy to celibacy allows even...
Reform School
...Asked about the draft Constitution (which he had read closely online), Ahmed said, “I can beat my wife up and then tell you this is discipline. This is not discipline....
Sunday Reading
...Poems Gwendolyn Brooks' poems for children Dress codes for visiting God On ordering cow dung patties online ReclaimUC: UAW International overrules academic workers' BDS vote Can't disrupt this: Elsevier and...
Visiting Africa: A Short Guide for Researchers
...Your hosts will probably know a lot about your country. We have friends and family living across the globe. We track their lives. Most African countries have digital newspapers online....
Study Abroad
...the lowballing is a pattern. In both Venkatesh’s online articles and the book, he describes his subjects as “high-end” and “upper-class” workers, which he defines as women making around $50,000...
The Fight and the Whale
...self-involved as that may sound, hosts Marc Maron and Tom Scharpling, who are far from new to online radio, use the hour to engage in something that's different from the...
You're Not Pretty Enough
...online. [Jennifer appeared on Good Morning America to talk about the "not enough" syndrome.] Never for a minute had I stopped to think to assess the things that make me,...
Once Upon a Dream
...we went online and found these great leather workers and people who do these more, kind of, elegant fetish clothes.” But, of course, the kinks get straightened out. I don’t...
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...sites. It also indicates the raised stakes over just who gets to define the meaning of the word fake in the emerging online-reputation industry. *** At first glance, it seems...
Invisible architecture
...Been away from online writing for a long while, as I've moved across a continent and have been finishing a number of large projects that will be surfacing in...