On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
...last era of American history when public shaming was a common form of punishment,” the main thing that strikes us about the power structure and ideals that it embodied should...
Heroines
...Anaïs weaves over countless journals, she is a liberated woman who finally escapes the oppression of her provincial environment. In her version she leaves out Hugo, her banker-husband who supports...
Vol. 24 Editors' Note: War by Other Means
...$2 and get Self-Help (as well as free access to our archive of back issues) today. For a limited time, share a link to Bloodsport and download it for free...
It Gets Worse
...a world with so much suffering must have deeper conflicts, of the existential fear that being “born this way” is the problem. This contemporary collective version of Dostoevsky’s underground man...
Seconds of Pleasure
...that productivity on CRM (Microsoft’s data management server) could be massively increased when workers were allowed to play games. Likewise, the company Snowfly specializes in improving company productivity by employing...
Talking Like a “Princess”: What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
...“accessible” technology that enables agency and self-expression, it also simultaneously reproduces and amplifies power imbalances. For my book, Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality , I conducted ethnographic fieldwork...
Sunday Reading
...rap the battleground between Muslims?” Collateral damage in the war on women Race and class matters: All's not equal when it comes to the government's big data habit Being a...
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...tangible. It is an immaterial series, after all. My dream is for Love Dog to exist in print and as an app, so that people can download the book and...
The Postcapital Economy
...really consists of (buying dollars with newly printed yuan), that bid remains competitive for as long as the Chinese government wants it to be. The Western version of QE sees...
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...After purchasing digital music, you can download it in whatever format you like, as many times as you want, as long as the site exists. You can listen to music...
Selling Roots
...trio of related companies, BritainsDNA™, ScotlandsDNA™, and IrelandsDNA™, founded by the historian Allistair Moffat under the scientific direction of Jim Wilson, a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, aims to...
Fake Painting
...of thing a forger might choose to do. The best thing of all are forensic tests, but people are very slow to call for forensic testing because for hundreds of...
An Attempt at Exhausting a Movement
...subsequently distanced herself from the group, the poet Michelle Grangaud twenty years later, in 1995, the novelist and scholar Anne Garréta (2000), the systems analyst Valérie Beaudoin (2003), and finally...
The Revolution that Wasn't
...Trotskyites were liberals, and hooligans nonviolent protesters.” Council on Foreign Relations analyst Steven A. Cook was far more blunt in a dispatch for Foreign Policy. “Tahrir Square smells like piss,”...
The Sabotage of Time
...of subject and act that underpins any representational politics, be it voting or street protests. In place of that, sabotage suggests making use of the very paths and delays of...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...Department. In some cases, entire travel assistance programs for special 'SOS' medical or evacuation services are based around such precautions. The University of California (full disclosure: I am an alum)...