Not Your Friend: Dissensus and the Police
...assemble in public in order to communicate with one another and with their elected leaders. If Kessler believes the Occupy mobilizations are about seeking redress with elected officials, I fear...
The Search for Posthumanism
...but he does not understand a word of Chinese. Computers rely on syntax. They can order and arrange symbols, but only humans have true understanding of what those symbols mean....
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...Spotify's understanding of humans as economic actors is almost maximally reductive, antiquated, and fundamentally flawed." Spotify's single biggest operating expense is the cost of licensing music from the major labels....
Real Human Being
...up. It was as if, with the arrival of white protestors, the mainstream had found a reason for Ferguson to matter: the Real Humans had taken the stage. The work...
Turn Down for What?
...constantly vulnerable to deportation. So much for Lyotard’s “doing away with all privileges of place.” As Evan Calder Williams writes, “the days and bodies of humans are still far cheaper...
Leak, Memory
...write to communicate stories of being held hostage by violent, terrifying families. They, too, write in order to communicate their survival, to comprehend figures of authority who violate in order...
Reason Displaces All Love
...was, of course, associated with women and the drudgery of housework. Here too it was thought that energy ordinarily expended by humans might be taken over by machines. The novel...
Reign in Drool
...games require audiovisual hyperbole to respond to each gesture the player sends them, something easiest to see in explosions and blood spurts, either the literal gore of other humans falling...
Manual Override
...and management. And it’s no accident that the term emerges onto record in late 19th century France, because sabotage doesn’t designate something that humans have done all along, even if...
Glass Barricades, 1
...that belief in progressive capitalist order can only comprehend as belonging to another time altogether – also lies at the quite literal center of the Kiev scenes and why received...
I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream
...and relinquish the compensatory desires and intoxications we have developed in order to make the present livable.'” For the many being forced into more precarious and untenable situations, there are...
Whose Streets?
An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain
Kenya's Security Act: A Map
...amend. Public Order Act Clauses 2-11 amend the Public Order Act. A few highlights: Clause 2 (a) amends Section 3 of the Public Order Act, by raising the fine for...
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
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
...consumers realize the value locked away in commodities: when they buy, the corporation gets paid. In order to have us be better value-realization machines, marketers know they need to know...