Sunday Reading
...Anning and the Flying Dragon Toward an Anthropology of Landmines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the Korean DMZ "Only one note went into Pogge’s permanent record. It was for...
Manifesto for Confessional Journalism
...those around you, nor to put them in compromising personal or professional circumstances through your writing. 3. The confessional journalist must not be boring. The following subjects are boring: the...
Universal Basic Bullshit
By providing the working class with the absolute bare minimum, universal basic income becomes doomsday prep for the tech billionaire
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Good Design . . . for Whom?
Aestheticizing the expansion of the prison industrial complex
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...
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...
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...
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...