Games of Truth
...The unscripted alternative can appear to be chaos. Parrhesia draws its power, its air of truth, from that chaos. It attempts to undo established roles in part through the force...
American Sajaegi
...counting download purchases from artist webstores. It’s possible they won’t see a problem with it, though. Three years ago, Billboard came under the control of Jay Penske’s Penske Media Corporation,...
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
...people I knew, whether they did any cheating or not, some version of this was normal. In my experience, it wasn’t true that students cheated because they didn’t work hard...
Immortal Techniques
23andMe makes the human body immortal at last
Single Servings
...sell to Big Data. Even though, as Slater notes, the sites know that matching would-be daters on the basis of profile compatibility isn’t especially effective, they continue to tout its...
Women Radiobiologists and 'Standard Man'
...while others simply focused on more powerful nuclear weapons. Data concerning radiation safety was essential to protect citizens in the new “Atomic” era, and Cook’s research on permissible doses would...
"Surveillant anxiety" and exceptional conformity
...from an increasing range of social science disciplines, and make big data smaller, more granular, even as the volume increases. But this only defines more unknown pieces, undertheorized relations between...
The Sonic Episteme
To use sound as a tool for theorizing and realizing a more just world, we can’t merely reform Western modernity; we must do something else entirely
Reacting to Reactions
...or inhabit that unique version of yourself, that “real identity” that your data has delineated, you have to keep using Facebook. To probe this self, we must consume and post...
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
...data to private companies. Despite the “objectivity” of the overall system, it unambiguously serves powerful government and corporate interests at the expense of vulnerable populations and civic life. As governments...
An Arbitrary Number of Theses on Donald’s Trump
...also likes to call his opponents and critics “babies.” “In the uncensored version, Trump is adorned with a micro-penis, also known in slang terms as a “baby dick.” The painting...
Silence Is a Woman
...tyranny, oppression, domination, and hubristic upumbafuness by the men. The multi-generational trajectory of Gikuyu women’s political embodiment and ethical public action contradicts the version of Gikuyu culture enforced by misogynist...
I Want to Believe
...immense power, take actions with beneficent or disastrous consequences, and create vast masturbatory displays of their own wealth and power, they can only do so under the compulsion of a...
Games of Truth
...will undermine that order, the fact that performances get "naturalized" isn't the source of all their power. It may be that when everyone knows certain roles are being enacted, it...
Magical Surpluses
...universe, and the one great and never changing fact in connection with it is, as we have found, that like attracts like. If we are one with this Infinite Power,...
Thunderous Graveyard Affirmations
A Letter on the Uprising in New York