Clear Satire
...an amateur comedian himself, he had come to decide that “satire” simply isn’t a thing, and that when people say any variation on “Well, it’s clearly satire,” they are talking...
The Sabotage of Time
...Bermejo River; Chaplin vs. Keaton; supply chains; Ballard; cunning and speed. Relevant links are here (reserve a free ticket at the first one if you're coming): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-manual-override-lecture-2-the-sabotage-of-time-tickets-10660867943 https://www.facebook.com/events/1425151034395572/ http://ctm.parsons.edu/manual-override-the-sabotage-of-capital/...
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
...photo, a group was shown en masse in a cage, prompting a commentator to ask “Gorme xoloo noqoney?” - When did we become livestock? Kenya is Sliding Down a Slippery...
In Defense of Spontaneous Contestation and/or Beauty
...at a site he viewed as part of an 'exit culture' of Disneyfied commodity exchange. He bought various packaged commodities—toys and electronics and so forth—but instead of going home he...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...because of campus responses such as these: University of California-Berkeley, 9 November 2011. University of California-Davis, 18 November 2011. Below is the UCOP email in full. Date: Fri, Apr 27,...
Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World’s Fair
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Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...SG-1, the screen-heavy spaces of the "bridge"/combat control room/etc continued to contain what one would expect: Battlestar Galactica Stargate SG-1 namely, keyboards and monitors as distinct things. One of the...
Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology
...through which humans progressed until they reached its zenith, the European man. For example, in his 1864 paper in The Quarterly Journal of Science , geologist William King compared a...
Freedom Industry
...for humans." Freedom means this happens constantly, a little bit. Freedom means sometimes it happens a great deal. We have more questions. But Freedom means we're done. http://vimeo.com/83906115 ...
Living Chess
...Lady Thomas appears in only one game on the popular chessgames.com database, from the first Women’s International Chess Congress in 1897, which she lost to Mary Rudge, the ultimate champion...
The Art of Conjecturing
...are polemical undertones to his sense of its radical contingency and its tendency to escape the control of would-be architects. “In trying to contain self-induced oscillations of a system by...
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
...an education – a lesson about its own origin as an event that takes place in the boundary between what humans do consciously and their unconscious effects on the planetary...
Gills, Gills, Gills
...on kayaks. Yet even that photo belies the experiment, since it casts the shark as chasing the humans. Even the attempt to good-faith effort to study sharks masked the disruptions...
Calm Before, Calm After
Since its 1998 release on the original PlayStation, the Japanese role-playing game Xenogears has become a cult favorite distinguished by its intricate 10,000-year backstory and ambitious plot: As players and characters slowly come to realize, the final boss is none other than god itself, and the game ends with its defeat. In the aftermath, the
Blue History
...issue forth strange returns. Even as the ocean buffers humans and other terrestrial life forms, unpredictable weather, methane bubbles, and “blobs” of warm water hint at planetary transformation. Beneath these...
Do the Robot
...new management tract called Humans Are Underrated, identify "empathy" and "storytelling" — and companies will need to find a way to take advantage of these to beat out competitors. At...