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...
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...
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
True Stories
...mainstream publications online, places like Slate, the online New York Times and New York magazine — a personal essay followed by a comments section filled with insults and complaints —...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
Cold Cases
...emerges, and conflicts between various parties online have IRL consequences. This is the exact opposite of an anonymizing effect. The Internet is as much a source of community and a...
Double oral is gay
...University, Department of Psychology, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, United States Received 11 March 2009 Revised 15 July 2009 Available online 25 July 2009 Imp September 3rd, 2008 5:22...
Old Neighbors, New Battles
Rekindling Indigenous relations against colonial violence
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
Sunday Reading: June 4, 2023
...souls came from.” CANSEC, North America's largest military weapon's convention, concluded in Ottawa this weekend. Over a hundred peaceful protestors delayed the keynote speech by Canada's defense minister. The Canadian...
Amniotechnics
...that fetuses (themselves full of parasites and symbionts) distinguish themselves. They do so brutally. Whereas in most species the mother’s safety comes first by default, in humans it is very...
The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
Hanford Idyll
...threat compared to the more pervasive scourge of human habitation. As one scientist quoted in National Geographic explained the phenomenon: “‘nature flourishes when humans are removed from the equation, even...
Virus in the System
The radical collective Gay Shame keeps the flame of anticapitalist queer politics burning.
Feasts Under the Bridge
...about the antifanatics just the other day. http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/06/anti-id_philoso060381.html What a coincidence.. NOT! Who's Online? Read more: Science20.com Other methods innovated by trolls include: 2. Doxxing. A troll will essentially...