The Young Mr. Lincoln
...manipulate us into doing what needs to be done, to tell lies so persuasively that we mistake them for truth, and in that way, they can actually come true. When...
Testing Beyond Control
...“I’m Feelin’ Like a Criminal: Why the Law Won’t Stop the Spread of HIV.” Positive Women’s Network - USA, pwnusa.wordpress.com. March 8, 2015. Jones is not alone in her distrust....
Dating robots
...or the script that exists for first dates, or whatever seems most comfortable or expedient. If we perfect online dating, we won't need robot lovers because the dating platform will...
A Cute Idea
...to look at as they sit in wheelchairs. Unable to find any wheelchairs online, JJ concludes that the Disabilities Act painting is a “cute relic,” like people—those more vulnerable than...
Over Easy
...future familial happiness. As a commodity, the ovum comes to carry an affective significance that few others do. The banner above the online profile of donor #60395 has pictures of...
The History of Dialogue: Naked Online
...ads for dick enhancement or phone-sex pop ups of commercial online porn, looking at naked bodies becomes a much less urgent or anxious activity. One doesn’t necessarily have to feel...
Coming of Age in Modern Dystopia
...narratives surrounding queer and indigenous identity while seeking comfort in the many distractions the online world provides. There is a delicate balance between the two: the former making the latter...
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
Why These Tweets Are Called My Back
...first things said to me about my abuser when I faced some of my online abuse in the form of misgendering was, “But she does good work.” Every discussion of...
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics
...Rosenfeld, interview by Thomas Kuhn, January 23, 1963, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4514_1.html. Interview of Niels Bohr by Thomas S. Kuhn,...
A History of Like
...to determine ad effectiveness. Whether the branding happens on TV, in a magazine, or online, we like, we buy. We like, they know. The science of marketing has always been...
Fact Check!
...which is run by the Annenberg Center, is another somewhat serious operation that exhaustively nitpicks politicians’ statements. In the vein of FactCheck.org are ABC and washingtonpost.com’s online fact-checking operations. Finally,...
Sunday Reading
...compete and be effective online, then it’s time to get out of the way for the people who can.” “The script… sees the bald Indian pacifist confronting the British Imperial...
From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world
Lying Like Cuttlefish
...we might exceed the very constraints of the earth—to leave it, as it were, to itself—through new feats of engineering. An image circulated online in support of eco-modernism by an...