Own to Rent
...image by imp kerr Social gaming and cloud computing are powerful alibis for always-on digital-rights management, which makes players into tenants SimCity, Electronic Arts’ online multiplayer reboot of...
Get Thee to a University
...any indication. According to the American Association of University Women, the ratio of seventh- and eighth-grade boys scoring higher than 700 on the SAT math exam was thirteen to one...
The Sound and the Fury
...the infrastructure wasn’t there. The farmers arriving daily in Kingston found that there was neither affordable housing nor land on which to build for themselves. So many made their homes...
Sunday Reading
...on campus: Yale interrogation study highlights the militarization of academia What was at stake at Brooklyn College? On the limits of academic freedom as politics "Revenue from beef sales, meanwhile,...
The Birth of a Beauty Criticism
...odd that it took as long as it did for beauty commenters to emerge. Back before there was such a thing as professional bloggers, the Wild West sensibility of the...
Sunday Reading
...goes. Contemplating the Indian intellectual self On "Recipes from Baghdad", published in 1946 (featuring an Abu Nuwas Cocktail) An Ottoman view of Mecca’s water infrastructure Andrei Tarkovsky was given a...
Panpsychism's Labyrinth
...allure and luster of materials. Shaviro helps to restore to poiesis its properly antic and slapstick materiality. It is in his discussion of aesthetics that Shaviro threads the needle, offering...
Homeward Bound
...is getting more sophisticated along with it. New technologies using GPS, cell phones, and cloud-based data are making it easier for monitoring services to be increasingly invasive and restrictive. Companies...
Sunday Reading
...Gentrification ‘We are indeed less willing to agree on what constitutes truth’ Why It is Essential That Criminal Bankers are Prosecuted Ethnic Cleansing: Colorblind Casting in Cloud Atlas Our Men...
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.
RUPTURES: Between the City and the Art World
...by thisistomorrow on the 12th December and archived on their website: thisistomorrow.info. For more information: [email protected] The full programme will be available on: www.rupturesinplaces.com To book FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruptures-between-the-city-and-the-art-world-tickets-19674357533...
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...a daisy to a mushroom cloud, that cut tells a story about the relationship between those two things. In the reality show that America now is, to cut from Trump’s...
Redefining the Right Wing
...that regulate and hold together the community by a chain of subordination.” Among his examples were “servants against their masters,” “artificers against their employers,” “tenants against their landlords,” and “children...
Salvage, Without the Punk
...as scrap of the Costa Concordia, rather than anonymous materials covering its tracks, would be tremendous, especially in this span of years so obsessed with “reclaimed” materials and “architectural salvage”...
Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.
Sunday Reading
...in Japan face drastically less business, violence, and unsafe working-conditions. The future of local newspapers, as playing out in New Haven. l.e. long Police stuff: Oakland Searching for Answers to...