Mediums of Exchange
...along with a very clear intention of becoming a professional who participates in the spiritual marketplace. This allows them to add to “all the physical and psychological factors” that help...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.24.13
...Ted Nugent's brother was former CEO of Revlon? Congressional makeovers: The Professional Beauty Association had its annual lobbying day on Capitol Hill, in part to advocate for an act that...
"Healthy" Nationalism?
...of either when growing up. In pre-9/11 education materials, Arabs appeared as mean pharaohs that kill Hebrew babies or Saudis that denied Americans gasoline during the 1973 oil crisis. After...
Ultra Violence
...showcase the qualities of idealized masculinity, the state invested heavily in the infrastructure to transform football into a mass spectator sport. In 1929 Mussolini established Serie A, the national football...
Kenya's Security Act: Notes
...believe the Jubilee coalition would like to amend the constitution, and passing this Act—how it was passed and that it passed—is simply one step in that direction. * 1. Clarifications...
Made for China
...villain designed to sell tickets in a globalized movie marketplace. To further ensure the movie’s success, Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures partnered with a Chinese company, DMG Entertainment. DMG co-produced...
Boom and Rust
...the environment, its rapid creation of a political, economic, and technological infrastructure—the Gold Rush established, for better or for worse, the founding patterns, the DNA code, of American California.” If...
Mask Off
...of the social, economic, and political technologies at our disposal––just as much tools as vaccines and antivirals––like social distancing, masking, paid leave, eviction prevention, community harm reduction, upgraded ventilation, infrastructure...
Light a Fire Under the DNC
...what pure Democratic imagination gets you. Instead, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has courted the tech industry year after year, even as it exploits the city’s public infrastructure and prices...
Carceral Capitalism
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
Prescription Strike
...are undermined by the perception that the program may be U.S. funded. NGOs are often viewed as nothing more than support infrastructure for foreign agents. The skepticism and fear exhibited...
Good Design . . . for Whom?
Aestheticizing the expansion of the prison industrial complex
The African is Not at Home
...rebellion and its mismanagement by the colonial and independence governments is mutual suspicion between the Somali community and the government, and punitive underdevelopment. The average Kenyan doesn’t study this part...
Lying Like Cuttlefish
...of building infrastructures for production that impress a less toxic burden on the world. But rather than decoupling from life and nature, biomimeticists proceed by seeking to appropriate life, to...
A Sentimental Education
...‘apolitical’ categories, of great masterpieces, of existential freedom.” Or, as he more piquantly puts it: “Do whatever you want,” the new commissars tell them. “You are free, independent artists. Just...
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
...construction continue to fight against the inevitable water contamination that such infrastructure and extraction bring, tribal communities across the United States also struggle with water that is already contaminated or...