LinkedOut
...one identity is searched, the data from people with similar names often mixes in accidentally. Disclosure would provide protection from mix-ups, and riffs off the sound transparency model established by...
New lows
...and became the Ritz vs. Freleng case. b. Additional case notes Brodkey became obsessed with Imp Kerr after he discovered the online version [blog] of stereohell in [June] 2009. A...
Desiring Machines
...an increasingly ephemeral world, akin to preserving life? (With enough reblogs, we might even approach a kind of transhumanist immortality.) This essay is a modified version of "Curation, Gender, and...
Ego depleted
...this version of identity, it no longer coheres. Trying to grow the self through exercising market choice simultaneously generates a scarcity of "ego" resources, which are depleted by this sort...
Nia in Two Acts
A year after her murder, reflecting on Nia Wilson reveals the ways black girls struggle against erasure while also reveling in opacity
Softer Than Softcore
...scar tissue in need of gentle dissolution. One version of the history of modern medicine is written around the growth of the diagnostic enterprise: physicals, serologies, radiologic cross-sections. Rightly or...
Selfie-Correction
...on Eliza Dooley, an updated version of the lead character of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and its musical theater remake, My Fair Lady. Whereas Shaw’s Eliza was marked by certain...
Shard Cinema, 1
...film must have won an award in some alternate universe for most absurdly over-extended adaptation. It’s like making an opera version of Connect Four. None of this is especially unique,...
Digital Dark Spaces
...Data," the dangers of public exposure for social deviance was highlighted by the Tumblr “Actual Facebook Graph Searches,” which catalogued a small number of potential searches on the beta version...
Liquid Modernity and Social Media
...the marketing data it generates but also in its ideological effect on users, emphasizing the centrality of consumer choice (the way liking stuff becomes accepted as equivalent to doing stuff)...
Everyday schadenfreude
...— until the undermining becomes virtually instantaneous. Then identity becomes a matter of continually shouting your current version of yourself in every possible medium to counter the competing versions. This...
Spotivangelism
...control. In Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control, professor of digital cultural studies Raiford Guins examines ways in which users of newer media technologies are offered “empowerment”...
Sunday Reading
...Edited By a Bigoted Drunk Who Fucks Pigs? Tamerlan and Tamerlane: American Journalism Gone Nuts Kerim: The urban version of Dove soap should be called "Pigeon" “Half of all New...
Osmic Frequencies
...the metascientific work that underlies scientific change. It’s rare for insider scientific conversations and controversies to become public before they become facts. We’re usually taught a version of science and...
Picture Pluperfect
...the complex — is rounded into a version pleasing to the eyes. But the popularity of Pinterest, like that of the Claude glass, goes beyond the simple enjoyment of pretty...
Autofill Mythologies
...project turns out not to be a case study in the coexistence of vibrancy and decrepitude, but an impartial approach to a seemingly unanswerable question: Which version of a city—the...