On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...tech industries that some adjacent word such as "hip" is needed to describe those online voices who proceeded to hate on Long and deem Hodgman to be the cool one....
Love Worth Fighting For
...of any particular other person. One is simply emotionally competent, in the abstract. Thus online dating preconceives any potential intimacy as generic. But in reality, intimacy reveals itself in unpredictable...
Midwest
...Because I was thinking of you, returning to Goshen for your writing conference this weekend, yesterday I read a couple essays published online by Rachel Yoder . She writes, “...
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...ignoring each other as they engage with their iPhones; the compulsive sharers on social networks who leave no private experience unmediated and recapitulated online; our own restless oscillation between email...
Athletic Aesthetics
...Parker Ito, America Online Made Me Hardcore, 2013 A new species of hyperproductive artist flooding the Internet with content invites audiences to complete their work by loving their...
The Fog of More
...the display of lots of information online has itself come to symbolize transparent, healthy democracy. But when a state disgorges useless and disorganized information, it swamps our capacity to make...
The IRL Fetish
...coined the term “digital dualism” to describe: the habit of viewing the online and offline as largely distinct. The common (mis)understanding is experience is zero-sum: time spent online means less...
Digital Dark Spaces
...no longer exists. But there is perhaps too strict a delineation in Fox's descriptions of the online world (cyberspace) and IRL (meatspace), not least when it comes to risk. The...
Massively Open Online Police State
...kind of war without end world destabilization that today's patriotic consumers demand. We have to do better. Massive online surveillance is not new. As techno-utopian Evgeny Morozov has demonstrated, governments...
The Scapegoating Machine
...that drive online abuse and scapegoating are also what give users a feeling of community on social media, its operators will be hard-pressed to rein them in, even if they...
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...
Model Behavior
...just how this goes: You dress for the office, you mold your online and offline persona to reflect well on the company, and even out of office hours, your “performance”...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
Games of Truth
...have to build the community (that once was geographical) as an online audience and hold it together by performing for it perpetually. The truth test becomes a way to ascertain...