The Resentment Machine
...most taken with the internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s spent a considerable amount of their time online talking about what it meant that they were online. In...
Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.
Over Easy
...workers—and egg donors in particular—need to prove that they are the right candidates for the job. As with other kinds of job applications, a lot of this is done online....
in the Name of INJUSTICE
...so-called Kirsopp Snake edition of stereohell is a forgery that purported to be a digest of stereohell that Kirsopp Snake constructed from bits collected online and rearranged in 2010. The...
Escape from Love Jail
...to escape from." As many have argued (including me!), constructing our identity and duplicating our social networks in online platforms has become a kind of capitalist production, effacing the old...
Enjoy the Rules
...of Who Owns the Future? Lanier describes his proposal for introducing this sort of reciprocity, a system wherein micropayments are constantly shuffled between online participants as each uses another’s data....
Personal Ads
...Jean-Michel Basquiat King Brand (1983) In an online milieu where everyone markets themselves, net artists have made selling out its own medium In the Atkins-diet-crazed early aughts, a...
The Scapegoating Machine
...of them.) Gawker’s willingness to single out individuals as targets of public ire, and to galvanize online mobs against them, was a source of its appeal and at the same...
Devastation in Meatspace
...of the historical "propaganda war": control of the networked space online. The IDF have run a comprehensive social media campaign from the first stages of the new assault, announcing the...
Social Media, Social Factory
...on the expression of individualism. Facebook wants to be the place where you feel most yourself, with the most control over how you are regarded. The online repository becomes a...
Fifty Shades of Yellow
...status online through obsessively tight reading practices of celebrities’ lives. The kinds of information sharing in these communities developed out of a need to establish social hierarchy in the nascent...
Collateral Damage
...having made any money at all. SSR: So how do you live? WO: I do various odd jobs online. I’m a social-media assistant. I find whatever work I can. And...
Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age
...photos, endlessly falsified and therefore perfectible online personas, we are all invited to construct ourselves closer to what we dream of being than what we simply are. Authenticity becomes a...
Death Stares
...replete with snazzy filters. As more people go online, impromptu and unintentional memorials arise and dead people’s accounts become virtual shrines and spaces for collective grief. By Facebook’s 10th anniversary...
Sunday Reading
...flurry of online legislation moves through California legislature: "SB 1306 is the absurdity degree zero of online panacea hallucination: It creates a 'New University of California' that must offer credentials...
Social-media redlining and "social enforcement"
...the sort of contacts I should make there to improve my creditworthiness. As this Economist article reports, banks are beginning to gather online social-media data to perform risk assessment for...