Value-seeking surveillance and The Hunger Games
...people are forced to watch the games, because this is how social order is maintained year after year -- the games remind the citizens of state power, which rests not...
Sunday Reading
...result of social media, vigilantism takes on a new form?” “In event of power or Internet loss, just shout 140-character comments out window” “There aren’t enough terms of service to...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 63: Patriots
It's an affirmation of what people of color have always known
Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)
...the interminable queues in the medical clinics for the whole family, she must understand and remember. But if this is the plan of capital over our heads, we women haven’t...
Spinoza in a T-Shirt
...of description, but exists in relation to broader contexts of power and meaning. Bodies are realized both through individual actions and by being acted upon, but the conditions under which...
Patriots
...of intercommunalism, which observes power as concentrated within a small global network that supersedes the nation as “the organizing principle of the world.” Intercommunalism explains dramatic disparities between Americans under...
Sunday Reading
...Shashwati: A detailed background on Narendra Modi and his rise to power before he became the presumptive PM.? Post election summing up of what led to the massive...
Bloodless Coop
...and bio-tech methods. Its ethical meanings necessarily depend on the ongoing production of cultural codes—that is, who, and under what conditions, will have the power to deem it an effective...
Semeiotic Dubai: Peirce and Pop Architecture
...to a real island, whereby the 'fake' points to the 'real,' possibly as an even better 'version' of the real. As discussed in the section on the iconic reference, the...
White Bodies, Black Faces
...a white man who undergoes surgery to become black.” I don’t remember the exact words, but she responded with some version of the typical thing white people say when they’re...
Watching Women Want
...men’s version last year, and I have been. What I didn’t expect to be was moved. The playing is excellent, of course; it’s the best female soccer players in the...
America Dads: Louis CK and Barack Obama
...choice between dads: which dad will we invest with the unilateral power of life and death? Which dad will be a good dad? This is a version of why I...
Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00
...Zhengrong Shi made from the $290 million market value leap in Suntech Power stocks after the company announced its plan to invest $10 million to build its first solar factory...
At the Tip of the Javelin
Sport, Capital, and the Far Right
Cause/Affect
...three-year old I understood that that system existed, and so my interest in change, in coming back as a bird, was a kind of metaphor for finding an escape. But...
"Mad Men" Beauty Musings
...Joan’s resilience. But it’s interesting that we see Joan assert her buying power while wearing what is undoubtedly a provocative dress—it’s her way of saying that she has no intention...