The Madman's Interpreters
...qualifying exam, as I recall, and I decided to write on Ashbery and Roussel. This was in 1985 when Ashbery wasn’t that well known in Britain, and Roussel not at...
Drones are Paranoid Androids
...matter when state murder is off-scene? For example, in both Al-Awlaki & Co. killings, one assumes the targets simply evaporated into the air. The non-visibility of the deaths certainly matter,...
Not Feeling It
An interview with Xine Yao on how, and which, feelings are racialized
The Sentimentality of Evil
The Zone of Interest can be understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and domestic labor.
Guest Post: Mother's Day
...for subtleties that were risk-free compared to looking like you questioned authority. It was another thing entirely to see a woman of “a certain age” sporting light pink hair. Next...
Tiktok LLM
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
Sunday Reading
...l.e. long Banner hanging above the Port of Oakland during the November 2nd General Strike #feministvigilantegangs Black women shaping feminist theory This is how to play chola... They come...
Masters of Suspicion
...but “the truth is always a suspect” is an equally valid reading. But neither of these fully captures the rich suggestiveness of the phrase. The line is an injunction to...
Taming the Inexplicable
...pretty ... impotent. Hidden audio logs, read smugly by professional voice actors, use famous quotations to introduce players to concepts like the infinite complexity of the universe, the dangers of...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
...on the struggles of independent designers during fashion week: Her point was a valid one and potent especially in New York, where you can basically buy your way on to...
The Anti-Family
...complications that can come along with an early pregnancy: increased rates of miscarriage, dangerous blood pressure, underweight babies. Instead, he blamed teenage pregnancy for high school drop-outs, crime, drugs, and...
Tooth-to-tooth metal lock
...then deleted and never stored. Beer Mats make bad Frisbees, study [PDF] Oregon third state in U.S. to legalize human composting Careers for some women in finance are being held...
Sunday Reading
...Goes Marching In The Upsurge in Uncertain Work The Internet of Things: Who Wins, Who Loses? Wendy Chun, on Software and the machine Cliqueonomics Infrastructure: Introductory Commentary by AbdouMaliq Simone...
Vol. 69 Editors' Note: Insiders
The first issue in our newsletter model
Insiders
...to meet the needs of our subscribers who interact with TNI in a number of ways—less through our PDF and more through not simply online essays but also printed objects,...
You Can Encrypt Your Face
...one of the faces below around yours. And make sure to wave at the scanner—their owners may be watching. Download all the masks here, or view them individually below....