Old Neighbors, New Battles
Rekindling Indigenous relations against colonial violence
Escape From Minus World
...money in the form of a new credit-card account. There was $50 toward a Buy.com purchase, and $25 off from Amazon, each of which seduced me into stupid purchases that...
Sunday Reading: November 26, 2023
...these short articles, and they will be published here within the newsletter and at the Sunday Reading blog. Please pitch us with drafts attached at [email protected]. That is also the...
Acta del Desastre
El levantamiento de Puerto Rico y la Instrumentalización de Lin-Manuel Miranda
Beauty Blogosphere 9.14.12
...consumer trends for 2012, as per trendwatching.com. We shoulda seen this coming, really. Hostess with the leastest: For the season premiere of The Talk, cohosts and guests went makeup-free. I'm...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12
...down? Pocket change: Shine.com breaks down exactly how much it costs to look like Jennifer Aniston (cloning not included). The grand total? $141,037. Girl in Front of Mirror, Pablo Picasso,...
Sunday Reading
...could help your credit score. Moribund left. We don't own the data; it owns us. In summer, kids run with excitement to the treats in the bread truck. What Obama...
Sunday Reading
...zone. Wage theft, poverty, and Japan's "black companies" L.E. Long: Headless Fatties, Our Modern Folk Devils The Drugs Don’t Work Tarkovsky's polaroids The empty eyes of Big Data...
We Can Be Heroes
...worse. The NSA leaks have revealed that the most pervasive intrusions of our privacy were not from new spy tools but rather through simple access to the data we passively...
Sunday Reading
...Japanese museums The Canadian war on experts What's next for Native politics in Canada? Nathan Deuel: "On Wednesday, "Deep Springs" was among the most-discussed topics on Weibo, China's version of...
Noshing with Nomads
...a few of us these days are getting a taste of a more modern and decidedly unromantic version of it, one which leaves us possessing nothing, yet serving someone....
Face Me, I Face You
...trade. In this version, even at the height of slavery an African could hoist himself up by the bootstraps, and find his reward in the embrace of British intellectual society....
The Honeyed Siphon
...nations are undiagnosed. Just as dramatic as this still accelerating proliferation of diabetes is the total inversion of its class dynamics. Type 1 remains nominally random, although clearly bound to...
Urban Planting
...come to fruition, but it won’t be surprising if a version of Romer’s charter cities becomes a reality in the next decade. If there’s ever been a time for a...
The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
...brush with the radical—a safari of political rebellion—without the nuisance of actually addressing systems of power or challenging the status quo. All the trappings, none of the substance. II. Since...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...salon is offering DNA tests designed to help users find a cosmetics regime that's compatible with their genetic makeup. Finally, a way to tell what makeup looks best on your...