In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
...professional athlete). An unaccustomed scene, watching a stage performer caught in the breaks of her act. As Ramsay Burt enumerates in "Revisiting 'No to Spectacle': Self Unfinished and Véronique Doisneau,":...
...protest of “an economic reality that simply does not work.” The big shows are all that matters now. During San Francisco’s Summer of Love, an anarchist publishing project called ComCo...
...athletic prowess in professional sports both rely fundamentally upon conjuring threat. And so while the explicit threat of the black male body has been diffused into consumer domains – into...
...has locked out its professional art handlers, kicking them into the street with no paycheck, while outsourcing their jobs to temporary workers. Meanwhile, Sotheby’s rewarded its CEO by nearly doubling...
...when the D line terminated at Brighton Beach.” There are rewards in not knowing—or in temporarily forgetting—who you are. A firm personal and professional identity often comes with the sorts...
...tool that’s free to download and requires very little programming foreknowledge. With a simple bit of syntax, the developer can create complex pieces of interactive fiction. Theoretically, any web design...
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
...about the NSA and Google and Verizon and Acxiom and all the other components of the Big Data surveillance machine, it seems natural to see in this infrastructure the long-prophesized...
...meaningful for them. Often self-employed, they fail to charge enough for their services, or they give them away for free. They also take on debt, hoard, and waste time. These...
...favorable reviews in the Yale Law Journal and Harvard Law Review. Whether attributable to growing socioeconomic anxieties, the newfound prominence of science in American social thought, the steady professionalization of...
...given that the colonized can be absorbed neither into the state as free citizens nor into the economy as free labor. Thus it must come down to “quite simply the...