Model Behavior
...just how this goes: You dress for the office, you mold your online and offline persona to reflect well on the company, and even out of office hours, your “performance”...
Games of Truth
...have to build the community (that once was geographical) as an online audience and hold it together by performing for it perpetually. The truth test becomes a way to ascertain...
Games of Truth
...the productive value of our uniquely wrought subjectivity to garner social recognition; we have to build the community (that once was a geographical given) as an online audience and hold...
Kenya's Security Act: A Map
...offenses related to having an ID card from KES 15,000/- to KES 200,000/- The Evidence Act Clauses 26-31 amend the Evidence Act. For those who live online, Clause 31 is...
"the good order of a school" and other poetries of privatization
...those words handed to you, that you've just been served with a legal stay-away order commanding you to stay away, for thirty days, from the place you're not allowed to...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #69
...ICC Witness Recalls Order to Evict Kikuyus: "When a convoy passed by, I heard Sammy Ruto saying that the results had been announced and ODM has been declared...
Why We Love Sociopaths
...the powerful and prestigious job, with more sexual opportunities than I know what to do with. In short order, it even comes to seem that only such people can get...
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
...endearment. The Paris Opera Ballet commissioned a documentary about Doisneau from Bel, a "low-rank" dancer a week away from retiring after a 20-year career. The evening of her last performance...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...cinema could do no better. In temporary lieu of that, below are a couple of the films he dragged into the light and insisted be seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-pHcC_M3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-WQZx2oJo http://www.veoh.com/watch/v14074458aY356Cd4 Lastly,...
Amniotechnics
...that fetuses (themselves full of parasites and symbionts) distinguish themselves. They do so brutally. Whereas in most species the mother’s safety comes first by default, in humans it is very...
A History of Like
...to determine ad effectiveness. Whether the branding happens on TV, in a magazine, or online, we like, we buy. We like, they know. The science of marketing has always been...
Testing Beyond Control
...“I’m Feelin’ Like a Criminal: Why the Law Won’t Stop the Spread of HIV.” Positive Women’s Network - USA, pwnusa.wordpress.com. March 8, 2015. Jones is not alone in her distrust....
New World Order
...time to believe in the current order of things, least of all because it’s barely managing to stay put. We’ll only see its true shape as it comes apart....
Subscription Drive
...Inquiry Magazine subscribers receive content first, in thematic illustrated digital editions, readable on desktop and portable tablets. Thanks to our early subscribers, we've been able to keep TNI online as...
Dating robots
...or the script that exists for first dates, or whatever seems most comfortable or expedient. If we perfect online dating, we won't need robot lovers because the dating platform will...
Lying Like Cuttlefish
...we might exceed the very constraints of the earth—to leave it, as it were, to itself—through new feats of engineering. An image circulated online in support of eco-modernism by an...