This Sex Which Is Not Two
...you can begin to see what the components of it are. A dynamic systems approach always has to be developmental and longitudinal. A cross-sectional bit of data is just the...
A Cute Idea
...against normative conceptions of gender and the profiling of activists and people of color, a computer voice advocates “weaponizing the face through masks” generated by the biometric data correlating to...
The Untrustworthy Reader
...eagerly. (Lee was ultimately charged not with spying but with one count of improper handling of restricted data.) Adler objects specifically to the paper’s reliance on “anonymous sources”—indeed she objects...
Athletic Aesthetics
...competitive, and if you want to be competitive you must be connected, receive and process continuously an immense and growing amount of data. This provokes a constant attentive stress, a...
You Probably Think This Bot Is About You
When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.
Reading the ICC Witness Project: About Witness #26 and #47
...to say, unless it becomes part of a story—“I was eating oatmeal when I saw the flying saucer”—it won’t even become a memory. It will just be data that was...
Wordly Treasures
...mathematics, and biology exist in the first instance through data robustly encoded in human signifying systems. Motion verbs can describe topology and river systems, names for birds or seasons describe...
Sunday Reading
...in ... if you haven't gotmoney, you vote out' Uber Data And Leaked Docs Provide A Look At How Much Uber Drivers Make Big Data: A Report on AlgorithmicSystems, Opportunity,...
Editors' Note, Vol. 39: Faith
...produced more data than in the entire prior span of our existence. Yet more data demand exponentially more interpretations. Keeping pace, belief in the institutions that secure meaning has ebbed...
Cops 2
...reportage into eerie command,” Gharavi writes, laying bare the state’s monopoly on legitimate use of deadly force. The intersection of policing and data science bring familiar strands of corporate logic...
Feedbags
...responsibility for what the News Feed serves them, but the apparatus still functions in the same way. Users generate data for Facebook's algorithm, which the company uses to categorize them....
Experiments in inertia
...the self's potential interestingness to infinity as the data compiles to make up charts and graphs and so on. Like minimalist art, it eliminates subjectivity and creativity and, to some...
Sunday Reading
...Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy The Airbnb Effect Commuter Students Using Technology Silent and Independent: Student Use of Academic Library Study Space Political Data is Everywhere-- But what...
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
...incompatible with poetic beauty. Only will truly high-powered computing be able to sort through such noise, I think. So bring on the algorithms. Big Data will save poetry. ...
The Myth of Cyberspace
...from the banks of every computer in the human system ... Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. A “nonspace,” meaning that...
Sunday Reading
...so rarely get applied to drug sentences? Big Data meets The Ice Storm. "Get off of my bike path!!"; new politics of surveillance. Eurocloud; does Quaero now seem like such...