The End of Plastic
...of peak whale oil and how kerosene distilled from petroleum saved the whales by giving humans something better than whale oil to burn. DC: Ironically, we may very well find...
Dummy Discards a Heart
...and/or commercial ends. Let's turn humans' proclivity for structured intimacy and turn it into an isolating trap! Gamification is awful for many reasons, not least in the way it seeks...
Reason Displaces All Love
...was, of course, associated with women and the drudgery of housework. Here too it was thought that energy ordinarily expended by humans might be taken over by machines. The novel...
Hackers Gonna Hack
...around in Pentagon systems, or is it someone with a public service kind of mindset? Most hackers, just like most humans, want to do the right thing. It’s just that...
Sunday Reading
...Pregnant Robert Hughes, 1938-2012 Understanding Turbans 2.0 Journalism, Framing and Value "Can women be creepy? Yes, for sure. They are human and capable of anything that humans are capable of....
Footnote Fairy Tale
...activities were undertaken, then that would mean that money was controlling humans rather than the other way around. The fact that the cyberneticists’ prices would be generated by computers and...
Selling Roots
...that he is a descendant of Viking invaders to the British Isles. But there are no genes that uniquely identify specific populations of humans. The most we can do is...
Texas Stands With Gaza
...blind and to hold that all humans were simply human, no more. He became a great philosopher when he outgrew that notion, when he began to think about the materiality...
Plantation Neoliberalism
...significantly turns to post-emancipation Jamaica. Pardon this long citation from the Grundrisse, but it is too important to chop up: The Times of November 1857 contains an utterly delightful cry...
Glassy-Eyed
...effective. Humans are amazingly good at adapting to new technologies, and Google has every reason to make sure Glass is as unobtrusive as possible. This way the digital layer and...
Transcript on a Face
...to name species of intelligent beings evolving from humans that breed with alien beings, adapting to their deteriorating or decaying physical environment. The "abhuman" were maligned by denizens of the...
The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice
A conversation with the authors of Octavia's Brood.
Sunday Reading
...temporary amnesia about the tectonics of power" The “Doom” Genre and Black Women How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey What happens to democracy in a...
Working With Kids
...vast diversity amongst all humans of all ages, the adult Garbage Can Dancer is a rare sight. The drive for spontaneous play gets dampened in the process of growing up,...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.30.12
...fellow humans, and that includes women. We just don't want you to A) be jackasses about it and leer, B) treat us as though that's our primary responsibility here on...
Theorizing The Web
...have changed the ways humans live." With more than 10 panels and art installations, the conference will bring together participants and researchers from various backgrounds, including NPR's Andy Carvin and...