Presumed conspicuous
...themselves constitute a concrete chunk of digital data, they become a marketable commodity for the networks' owners as well as a source of market information affect the value of other...
Dark Pools
...complained about 18-year-olds getting stuck with loans they didn’t fully understand. She pointed out how that logic could be extended—to people of certain races, in “bad” neighborhoods, at nursing homes...
Sunday Reading
...in the incident and that the defendants 'acted reasonably and with good intentions.'" Meanwhile, CSU plans to outsource its data storage to private data centers, leading to possibly the best...
Reading Slowly
...from the data stream, and I find myself resisting and resenting it, as if it were taking me away from life and from the world. Digitization has of course made...
Representing Crisis
...status, not for power or respect—we don’t have much, as he saw it—but for the granule of authenticity the institution’s history of struggle grants us. It is easy to portray...
Dating robots
...universal causes of love (there are 10 of them, including "desirable characteristics of the other" and "filling needs"), presents some survey data that purports to reveal what people get out...
Mask Off
...an overly broad definition of who “deserves” protection, which results in giving the vulnerable a little more power than he thinks necessary: For chronically ill people, political power derives in...
Counterfeit
...weakest part of value, which it so often amplifies and indicates. And besides, a version of something is still a thing in its own right. All of which makes the...
History of Dialogue: Tamil Stories
...on the level of their very existence, on what they describe as their identity. And Callum’s film, the Killing Fields, which was the initial version of the film we saw...
The Summer of Love and the Holy Fair
...Scotland after the Knoxian reformation, and McGready brought a no-frills, scaled-down version of it with him to Kentucky. Each time he held one of these sacramental meetings, he worked tirelessly...
Everything resembles the truth
...a Stereohell online information and service system. To browse SRNET or join, set your modem to 22 data bits, 1 stop bit and...
Social Media, Social Factory
...privileged site of the self, the authorized version that redeems the provisionality of work life and that can correct the errors and discourtesies we commit in our confrontations with the...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...reinaugurates the old state of affairs. In the version that would be a film, our heroes awake the cold morning after to find a market economy blooming at dawn… How...
SEO & The Disappearing Self
...and makes all friendship into a game of self-promotion, a struggle to get noticed. Its algorithms require a search-engine optimization of the self, a sanitized version that reveals to friends...
Adventures in Candyland
...something with the aura of a version. McCarthy has made hay of his vanguard position within the Anglo-American scene. A staunch anti-realist (even a kind of “anti-humanist”), he prefers to...
Little Boxes on a Hillside
...the law. But municipalities can write new codes, and some are embracing a version that prioritizes form over function. These form-based codes are the backbone of a broader design trend...