Sunday Reading
...supple and elastic system of affinities" Bioshock to the System Community and consent: property rights in online roleplay Making Sense of the Static No, Crisis Aaron Bady: These have to...
Contemporary Scottish Friction
...in the bars, there has been a surge of enthusiasm for Scottish writing – poetry, prose and polemic alike – quietly consumed, circulated online, or called to crowds atop stages...
Lying Like Cuttlefish
...we might exceed the very constraints of the earth—to leave it, as it were, to itself—through new feats of engineering. An image circulated online in support of eco-modernism by an...
Hillbilly Ethnography
...regular science contributor after Gawker revealed his “history with racist, far-right online publications.” Charles Murray--author of The Bell Curve, and perhaps the most famous racial determinist in contemporary American public...
Get real
...divulging her everyday life online for a company that is a sort of top-down-administered proto-Facebook. (I like that it's called PersonalSpaces.) She is chasing after what she thinks of as...
Closing Statements
...publishing them online in 2011. In the decades encompassed by the archive, there seems to be little attempt to adhere to any common standards of record-keeping. In some instances, a...
Presenting Men
Some considerations...
Killing the Angel in the House
...when I couldn't sleep I found instructions online for how to care for a donkey. Donkeys are supremely underrated. They are life's best companion. (From the handbook: 'Donkeys will mother...
Social media and sensibility
...emotional pleasure. The novel (as is claimed about smartphones and other modes of online engagement today) pre-empts the need for co-presence. But the pleasures of exercising sensibility — an 18th...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...but of how the beauty industry works. "I’ve been told by retailers that black women don’t shop online. They said, ‘We can’t put your whole line on the website.’ I...
Rhizome Call for Papers and Projects on E-Cigarettes and Vaping Technologies
...wide net for histories, essays, artworks, workshops, and polymorphous contributions to shape this inquiry to be held online and off. Be in touch... Deadline Nov 12 More info ...
Sunday Reading
...Frank Pasquale: The phantom fraud task force. Scientism is shallow. Manufacturing folk devils. New corporate education model: "online correspondence school for very rich adults who want to be flattered"...
Service
...role of aesthetics in political economy and how the circulation of Asian babies alongside cute animals online further propagates white-supremacist savior complexes. “From the view of the adopting nation-states, they...
Sunday Reading
...somewhere more authentically artificial. "There's a strong, specifically technocratic conflation between efficiency and good in Silicon Valley" "Drones date online, but drones don’t think about it the way that humans...
Gamifying Beauty
...lending the benefits of gaming to more tedious tasks (like work), the tedium is lessened because it feels more like play. Perhaps you’ll be more likely to, say, complete online...
London, Underground
...ask, with genuine incomprehension: Where did these kids come from? The next morning, crowds of overwhelmingly middle-class people organized online to sweep away the debris from Camden, Clapham, and Tottenham....