Shard Cinema, 1
...gets parsed out further, because one of the central plot points derives from the gap between two kinds of “Jaegers” (those behemoth vehicle mounds piloted from within by humans, because,...
The End of the World as We Know It
...Croods (2013). The Croods is a charming dadventure about a three-generational family of cavemen who believe themselves to be the last humans on earth and have survived the violent fate...
Sunday Reading
...Collection of California as an Island Dogs and Humans and What Earth Can Be: Filaments of Muslim Ecological Thought Bint Battuta: The Soundscape of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul Mosques: Architecture and Qur'an...
The Enemy of All Mankind
...logs to smuggling humans. Â According to the United Nations 2009 Agreement on Port State Measures, preventing illegal fishing is about responsible resource extraction. Illegal fishers use damaging methods such...
My Own Private Detroit
...outcomes. There should be no way predatory humans can hunt families and victimize individuals.” Brown sounds like Telesford in his “preventive” approach to neighborhood patrols. You get the feeling that...
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...however, contains direct references to three named continents, implied input of unnamable other countries, and a distinct, repeated address to “the world.” Read may have come up with the perfect...
On Rage and Swagger
...all this. It is the crucial idiotic center of the urge toward politics — that is, the practice of sharing space with other humans, the compression of bodies and urges...
Après Nous, le Déluge
...instruments enter the musical track: trumpets, trombones, saxophones; the cacophony begins to speed. Now humans are dwarfed not by nature but by the ceaseless replication of their own consumer goods—replicating...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Sunday Reading
...all at once" "the consistency in online iterations of the travelers’ gaze" "the Horse e-books fiasco suggests that we are more than ready to mistake bots for humans and vice...
The master-smartphone dialectic
...The Servant, but a whole slew of science-fiction dystopias hinge on this idea as well, that the machines want to enslave humans whose faculties have been dulled by dependency. Rather...
Things to Come
...that anyone who thinks that fantasy and science fiction is in this vacuum, and it’s all made up, is lacking understanding not only of genre fiction, but actually of humans....
Wordly Treasures
...of organic virtuality where humans’ signifying behavior occurs, of a complex of strategies devised by indigenous communities for effective decolonization and national liberation. Besides their exonyms—names applied by neighbors and...
Sunday Reading
...and humans as cohabiting and co-constitutive of a shared ecology might contribute to an anthropological analysis of landmines and explosive remnants of war" – Eleana J. Kim's Toward an Anthropology...
No Mushroom Cloud
...it is: the interminably slow work of finding better political arrangements. Against that reality, we can only do our best to maximize it for as many humans and nonhumans as...
The Untrustworthy Reader
...a person and a reader, I am uncomfortable with certainty. I am myself rarely certain, am rarely close to other humans (or texts) who profess to be. This discomfort informs...