Graphic Interface
...these can’t be the status quo. DR: At least that’s something. SG: One of your commands for online conduct is to “Be yourself.” 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...
The Contagious Assembly
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
How to Talk About the Weather
...that was that we’re actually in a new geological period in which humans are a geological force. They’ve become geological agents. What they mean by this is we’ve always been...
Joe Cool
...need Twitter. Its Instagram is private, for friends-only. It would seem like this strategy could backfire with millennials, who are less likely to privilege IRL over online, if they even...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Resisting The Chilling Effect
...familiar cast of characters in the narrative of online privacy: the schoolteacher fired for her Facebooked drunkenness; the teenager laid off after admitting she was “so totally bored!!!,” the Canadian...
Virulence in the Virtual
...groundbreaking article in the Village Voice, entitled, “A Rape in Cyberspace.” The first extensively printed account of virtual rape, Dibbell’s 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
Objects of Derision
...presently, however obscurely, within the categories, patterns, and relations that make up our social order. But hold on, one might protest. Aren’t cops “subjects”? 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...
Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations
...sign of the general, one that requires the violent paid and unpaid exploitation of humans and resources in the service of the construction and circulation of commodities, it follows that...
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...how online platforms resolve the tension between capitalism (which is about making us buy mass produced goods) and consumerism (which is about us making ourselves with those goods or with...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
"It Continues Not To End": Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
...from Kenya has been online: the ICC Witness Project, for one, but also the Jalada writers collective—whose anthology is coming out soon as an e-book—a site called Brainstorm Kenya, which...