...plantation system. These fungi and other pests and diseases represent the plantation system gone wild in ways that negatively affect humans, plants, or animals. Fungus can be terrible too....
...instance of art theater at Performa 13 was Alexandre Singh’s The Humans, a lavishly produced three-hour musical comedy. It imagined our species originating from a series of sculpted automata who...
...linger on Murray’s formulation of money, which posits that money is not quite real. It is an expression of an immaterial abundance that waits in the wings for humans to...
...Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview. Dogs and their humans in the world of Gaya Lila Abu-Lughod: Should We Act on Israel/Palestine, or Not? How Hillary...
...extent that it can be redeemed for “real” wealth. But what is real wealth? Wealth is a subjective, messy term for things humans care about and depend upon. It includes...
...the humans doing the witnessing had to be trustworthy, a determination made on thoroughly social grounds. “It is absolutely crucial to remember who it was that was portraying himself as...
This is a story about the telos of our current wave of megablockbuster superhero films and shows, beginning roughly with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2007 and The Dark Knight in 2008, which endowed the genre with broad critical respectability, public embrace, limitless bankrolls, a persistent universe, and a viable playbook for adapting second-string intellectual
...education justifies and can perpetuate class divisions. In racially and economically segregated areas it serves as a violent structure that measures and codifies humans the way cattle are counted in...
...name, repeated ad infinitum: “Digit. Digit. Digit. Digit.” As grief-stricken humans sometimes do, Dian mourned Digit by avenging his murder. She captured and hogtied Digit’s suspected killers, bound them with...
...That they were expected to fail the test suggests that what humans hear as noise is historically contingent. Today, it is unfathomable to us that listeners then could not distinguish...
...I also wonder if I’m asking the wrong question here. As humans, we love little more than to watch each other in a variety of ways (is TV anything other...
...humans. Whereas Viagra affects physiology—increasing blood flow to the genital region—Addyi affects neurocircuitry. It goes right to the source of the so-called problem: the female brain. Initially formulated as an...
...in man-groups and say mean shit about whoever isn’t there before going off to puke up oyster globules.” It appears that humans were capable of discerning that they wanted the...