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...
Sunday Reading
...if they come to your door, ask them to leave a card in the mail slot) The border wants your screen name Reclaim UC: Intersecting picket lines: free speech, Palestine,...
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...
Sunday Reading
...Karen Gregory: Risk Archipelagos, Broad Spectrum, and The Border Control Industry Forensic Architecture The Infrastructure Toolkit Mass Suicide Protest at Apple Manufacturer Foxxconn Factory Digital Economies (video) The Social...
The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift
...because we liked it and wanted to do it. Once free of work as a measure of character, perhaps there would be room for some comfort in performing labors in...
May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow
...majority of the property damage was inflicted on infrastructure of circulation, although this issue is lacking from the relevant texts written about it.) The whole thing didn't come to an...
Queens Live @ The Kitchen
...Ithaca, and currently lives in New York. Hannah Black holds an MFA in Art Writing at Goldsmiths and recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her recent work across video,...
The More Things Change
...MyNewOrleans.com. You can reach him at [email protected]. Josh Neufeld is a cartoonist & illustrator and the creator of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a nonfiction graphic novel about seven...
You Don’t Own Me
...and materials into new ways of living and performing within the very real limitations of the gender binary. When I read the Chez Deep manifesto, I am reminded of Spiral...
The Party's Girls and Party Girls: Negotiating Beauty in the Soviet Union
...The demands for ultra-specific beauty and hygiene standards even necessitated the creation of a state-owned and operated cosmetics company, the Tezhe trust. Marketing materials for Tezhe used feminine models in...
Celluloid Coven
...but assumed wasn’t available to me. I was sure, though, like with this weird inordinate self-confidence, that eventually I would find all of it when I had left home. It...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...has nothing to do with beauty, but I also loved Caitlin's piece on female athletes and grunting . I occasionally and unintentionally grunt at the gym, and sure enough I...
It's Hip to Eat Mare
...panicked they even opened a horse butcher shop in the United Kingdom. I imagine it’s closed since then. With the latest lasagna scandal, nothing radical changed. We had more to...
The Cost of Disclosure: On Being a Woman with a Disability in Geophysics
...but a wholly unneeded hindrance to disabled women scientists. From simple changes like offering gluten free options while camping to more complex steps like better representation in professional societies, Megan...
Spook'd
...available for purchase. Malcolm: How do you see Spook's relationship to academia and professional scholarship? The content I've seen so far seems to take thought seriously but not itself too...
Standard Gawker English
...is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. While Orwell’s essay attacks the symptoms of bad writing in his time, Newton’s targets the virus behind the bad in ours —...