Narrative of Fragments
...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world
On Privatization and Brutalizing Campuses
...currently close to $22,000 ā to enroll in online classes, even though, as Wendy Brown has observed, comparable online programs typically anticipate a drop-out rate of up to 70%. But...
Graphic Interface
...these canāt be the status quo. DR: At least thatās something. SG: One of your commands for online conduct is to āBe yourself.ā What separates your vision of online transparency...
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
...civilized on the Internet is, however, an impossible request, because the Internet is exactly where the socialized etiquette of face-to-face interactions comes apart. Online, you can stare for a shamelessly...
I Want to Believe
...wiping them out. Beheading the king, as they say, we maintained that this process is not exactly executed by, but more specifically through humans, whom it forms as subjects through...
How to Talk About the Weather
...that was that weāre actually in a new geological period in which humans are a geological force. Theyāve become geological agents. What they mean by this is weāve always been...
Manual Override
...countermeasure. Sabotage weaves a minor and inconstant arc through the surveillance, management, and design of human activity and its inhuman sites and interfaces. Counter to Douthitās specifically martial sense, we...
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
...While radiation contamination continues, permeating the planet beyond the national border, the off-lined nuclear reactors have been put back online, one by one. In the rest of the world, most...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Resisting The Chilling Effect
...you will ā is a viable alternative to online idea-sharing. Habermas used French salons from the 18th century as examples of āorganized discussion among private peopleā to counteract the insidious...
Virulence in the Virtual
...groundbreaking article in the Village Voice, entitled, āA Rape in Cyberspace.ā The first extensively printed account of virtual rape, Dibbellās article describes the attempts of LambdaMOO, a text-based online community,...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
ConversaciĆ³n Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation ofĀ TheĀ Undercommons
Objects of Derision
...presently, however obscurely, within the categories, patterns, and relations that make up our social order. But hold on, one might protest. Arenāt cops āsubjectsā? Even if you insist that cops...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...he can order the recalcitrant black soldier to do what needs to be done. Only southerners, you see, have the necessary knack of command, so as freed slaves are re-cast...