Radical Strain
...to refine the raw materials that women supply. Weeks before the release of her second album Kala, M.I.A. confronted Pitchfork in an interview about male journalists' tendency to assign male...
Sunday Reading
...all of your emails” ““Oh, don’t be such a digital dualist, Raymond,” Isobel quipped” “In his egregious professional misstep, he inadvertently handed Fat Activists a microphone and a spotlight” “Every...
Sunday Reading
...Life of a Professional Guinea Pig What We Lost in Palmyra “ICARDA, in Aleppo, specialized in a particular kind of agricultural memory.” You Are Here! You Were Here! Chutzpah or...
Guides for the Perplexed
...imperialism worldwide. The university is known both for the experiences it provides to those lucky enough to become its students—formally, a center of intellectual and professional stimulation and education; informally,...
Opening the Gate
...The Ivorian novelist Edwige-Renée DRO talks about the wealth of writing talent and the weakness of Africa’s publishing infrastructure THOUGH I was already familiar with her work in...
Summer Heat
...will.” Instead of drugs, Harlem cops in the 1930s were searching for policy slips in an effort to crack down on illegal gambling. Reprinted in the report was a letter...
Thesis 2: Capitalism, No More
...settler-political economies like Canada's. Blocking access to this critical infrastructure has historically been quite effective in forging short-term gains for Indigenous communities. Over the last couple of decades, however, state...
On Modeling as Modern-Day Physiognomy
...underarticulation serve to cloud what lies behind the determination of those standards: a reinforcement of existing power structures. The tastemakers Mears interviews have a set of guidelines just as strict...
The Clock Inside Us
...of order in the workspace. The clock’s ubiquity legitimized time discipline and naturalized it, making it banal and commonsensical. It made sure that no one escaped the tempo. One might...
The Man Who Saved Prospect Park
...offered. It joined spiderwort, white snakeroot, daisy fleabane, and even an interloper from the Keystone State, the Pennsylvania smartweed. Searching for wildflowers in the boroughs isn't new. The hobby was...
Built to Last
...professional photojournalist on commission to document a war zone. In some ways the people directly involved in [a conflict] are going to get just as clear pictures at some point...
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
Live Through This
...shamed or diminished.” The rape itself was minor compared with the aftermath, which was a considerable inconvenience, an interruption in the momentum of my pain-free life. Yet what he’d done,...
Occupy The Library
...themselves, after all — though they did send several completely conspicuous spies to observe and report on what was happening (conspicuous by their cloud of contempt and refusal to communicate...
You are totally unreliable Twitter
...is doing, and treat those projections as if they were basically valid. We have to assume that we are contextualizing the text correctly. Yet proximity is often misleading, particularly if...
Sex in Public
...synthesis while leaving the structural conditions invisibly in place. These days even bankruptcy and credit card debt can cloud over your sense of romantic self-worth—knowing you have debt fills every...