Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
The End of the World as We Know It
...nation, the right proposes to reintroduce order and justice by coming to power and putting said population in its place. That population might be government bureaucrats and feminist killjoys or...
Artificial Advancements
Technological innovation is not an inherent good for disabled people, especially when the focus is on cure over care
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)
...Watch the Throne, laden with braggadocio about hyper-conspicuous consumption. Cord Jefferson negatively compared the album's self-professed social impact to the actual legacy of the Black Power movement it claimed to...
Naked Criticism
...regulate it and what counts as knowledge within; it says who the author is and where her authority lies. The psychoanalyst does not reach for hard-numbered sociological data, and the...
Droning On
...have actually been realized. While drone proponents argue that for every militant killed by a drone, there is one fewer militant on the ground (which, as analyst Micah Jenko points...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...The data self is not a more accurate version of oneself but a reduction. Hence Young has his future rebels argue for a "tolerant society, in which individual differences were...
Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World’s Fair
...Olympics might yield data points permitting a statistically valid interracial comparison. Although the poorly organized competitions were plainly a shambles, McGee and Sullivan did not hesitate to use the individual...
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
Live in Infamy
...these networks are still permanent and (theoretically) accessible to prying authority figures like prospective employers, insurance companies, consumer data harvesters, and of course, law enforcement. Even as Google and Facebook...
From Mega-Machines to Mega-Algorithms
...How do we build resistance to algorithmic systems of domination when their rewards and punishments are both hidden and immaterial? An earlier version of this article was presented at...
Mass Authentic
...defined set of like others.” It typifies the “constantly emplotted desire of a complex person to rework the details of her history to become a vague or simpler version of...
The Tryhards
...industry. Where Hayes suggests a new and different kind of subversion, I see simply a particularly obvious version of a common, even ubiquitous form: the replication of educational and intellectual...
Privacy for Whom?
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
Run, Boy, Run
...it again? Having already worked her way through the recognition and critique of emotional labor in “Video Games,” where Del Rey professes the creepiest possible version of devotion in order...
Eulogy For Pan-Africanism: Long Live Man-Africanism
...to elites aligned to the interests of those closest to power, to those who had received Western education, who could translate and represent African demands to the West. These were...