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...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 134
...environment for fetal health more generally. [Biodemography and Social Biology] Determinants of online sperm donor success: How women choose Living together is basically the same as marriage, study finds New...
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...
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...
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
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