Old Bones
...history of colonialism, science was a major legitimization agent. Why do you think it had to be dinosaurs and not, say, Ice Age megafauna, the mammals that humans did actually...
Sunday Reading
...a spam bot gain stratospherically more followers than me, while being showered with a level of praise seldom applied to actual humans on the internet. Dozens of people declare their...
The Ahmeds in America, Part I
...of every love that follows; it is the primary love relationship - the first that humans experience, and as such, a profound influence on all subsequent and secondary relationships in...
Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00
...cycle, that of The Interview. The film itself is, of course, just the n-th iteration of Appatow-Dugan-Stoller bromantic banality. It's replete with spite for any humans other than its chosen...
The Oceanic Feeling
...satisfaction was something all humans left in the womb. A version of this essay first appeared at Bully Bloggers But spinning on blackness needn’t be just an image for depression,...
Five Questions with Jerome Rothenberg
...was that poetry in fact was everywhere & was probably coterminous with our earliest emergence as “knowing humans,” strongest often where we least expected it. For that Technicians of the...
Sunday Reading
...Obama still relying on the blank check the Bush administration gave him for endless war Dogs but not Wolves use Humans as Tools THE SLAVE AND THE DOLLAR Grandpa Was...
Lessons of Engagement
...find knowledge and peace,” Adnan writes. In contradistinction to the heavy symbolism of The Arab Apocalypse, Adnan’s novel Sitt Marie-Rose is an explicit and realistic account of violence among humans,...
Preemptive personalization
...frustrate the human need for effort and creation." But since Orwell's time, the mechanization process has increasingly become a mediatization/digitization process that can be rationalized as an expansion of humans'...
Everybody's Doing It
...countless nodes on various networks, digital manifestations of humans and nonhumans alike. Advertising executives are your older siblings. Aging hipsters twice your age are your friends. The affectations of generations...
Post-coloniality Sells
...humans come from him. The novel was was a nod towards the Ganda creationist myth. The first king of Buganda was also Kintu, so the title suggests a beginning and...
Sunday Reading
...implications: “I am documented, therefore I am.”" "people click Like merely because humans have an irresistible desire to be counted" "when DRM makes products less valuable, it also makes them...
How Bad Is It?
...most likely outlook for the 21st and 22nd centuries. Still, if most humans are shallow and conformist, some are not. There is reason to hope that the ever fragile but...
Wrong Ways to Eat
...near universality and the routine frequency of these practices of binging and purging suggest that they are common ways for humans to engage with food. They are not the unpredictably...
In the Water
...hot deserts filled with sharp-tongued ophidians, or mountains even orologists would not climb. But once they arrive on dry land, they have reached the state. It is humans who make...
Five Questions with Christopher Rey Pérez
...confiscated and tossed. The logic governing the State’s regulations with regards to not only produce but also animals, merchandise, and even humans seems almost algorithmic when experienced on-site as opposed...