The "Sharing" Economy
...new crop of businesses that have sprung up to reorient some of the anti-capitalistic practices that have emerged online — file sharing, intellectual property theft, amateur samizdat distribution, gift economies,...
Vol. 19: "Art"
...and forever, content on thenewinquiry.com will be available, online for free to all. The New Inquiry has no traffic-seeking advertisers, no string-pulling benefactors, and no paywall. Instead, we have a...
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...
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...
Experiments in inertia
...it seems somewhat arbitrary to limit the possibilites to three, I can easily see how these can be used to taxonomize most people's online presence: There aren't many that can't...
Magical Surpluses
...Lord is my Banker, I shall not want” —John Murray, 1918 In a recent online video entitled “How to Use Manifesting to Get Anything You Want,” “multipassionate entrepreneur” and “lifestyle...
The World According to Modern Monetary Theory
...more points you earned), and every member of our co-op owed the house 30 points per week. Point balances were kept on a paper chart or online spreadsheet (no one’s...
On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
...in line. Tell the women on the receiving end of organized campaigns of online harassment, who fear for their safety and sanity, about the troubled, embattled tech-bro who can no...
Security Theater
...belief in the malevolent world can bring, the crisis actor subculture suffers the same kinds of internal drama found in every online community. Ed Chiarini of WellAware1.com is one of...
Sunday Reading
...public maps of Lebanon — paper or online — refugee camps are often shown as gray blobs, with no detailed view of the street plan.” The Forgotten History of Female...
This is Not a Simulation
The computer simulation hypothesis reveals how the American liberal elite questions everything except the insufficiency of liberalism itself
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Devils in Red Dress
...because they do not put [women] in an advantageous position on the marriage market.” The online dictionary of Xinhua, the state news agency, notes that leftover word here, sheng, is...
An Open Letter from Our Editor in Chief
...doubled, but your support will echo far beyond any measure. We're counting on you to help us prove that there's still a place for online writing untethered to traffic-driving algorithms...
Privacy for Whom?
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
Loving the Alien
...diets, children, psychological health, online dating profile picture, standardized test scores, and so on. In Foucault’s terms, Western economies shifted from the mechanical reproduction of commodities to the biopolitical intensification...