Mediums of Exchange
...to develop the capacity, the capital-ability, of the spiritualized self. When the work of self-mining is translated into a viable online identity, we see how easily the lines between spiritual...
How to Destroy a Community
...Mittani, he is the former spymaster and current CEO of the Goonswarm Federation, one of the largest player alliances in the hypercapitalist space opera Eve Online. Eve Online is a...
The Acquisitive Gaze
...shopping mentality govern everything we do online. 8. Consumerism once limited this sort of self-expression to what one can afford. But with Pinterest, users can simulate the acquisition of things...
SEO & The Disappearing Self
...(via) “On Facebook, our communication is assessed like online advertising — how many click-throughs did it inspire? This prompts us to make what we say on Facebook sound...
Sunday Reading
...the NSA's sins Massively Open Online Police State Doktorgeschwister A history of liberal anti-unionism The baby in "Salt of the Earth" ended up working at Walmart. "Nuclear power is fine,...
Natural's Not In It
...shampoo; others complain about the “unnaturalness” of antibiotics, hormonal birth control, or monogamy. Judging from various Paleo forums online, homeschooling is fairly popular, as are hairy men, eating with one’s...
Spook'd
...art and criticism online. I have yet to figure out how to translate Spook to the web in a creative way. Although, a digital version of the magazine will be...
From Mega-Machines to Mega-Algorithms
...Google. Coursera, a for-profit online education startup, also needs translators’ labor, so it can sell its MOOCs (massive open online courses) in other languages. So in April 2014, it created...
Your Friends and Neighbors
...her job at a Christian highschool after the photos went online. G., or someone purporting to be her, responded, swearing to sue. But it didn’t work out that way. G....
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...poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance? After all, dating sites still generate actual...
Hungry for Love
...whether exchanging their young sex for the hazy cultural capital of performing at the New Museum was exploitive. Online, conversations flared over the sexually violent undertones of NY NY HP...
Midwest
...hominess? Because I was thinking of you, returning to Goshen for your writing conference this weekend, yesterday I read a couple essays published online by Rachel Yoder . She writes,...
No Life Stories
...to assess people. Thanks to the services’ ongoing proliferation, it has become increasingly inconvenient to take part in any social activity—from making a purchase to conversing with friends online to...
Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation
...to evangelize. I communicate what I need to happen and when, and we are an efficient team finding answers together. The nature of being online as you plan for an...
TNI Vol. 13 Editorial Note: Bartlebea the Dater
...Love in the Time of Algorithms, which poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance?...
The Plague Years
...brief foray online suggests that there are productive ways to take advantage of the virality of social networks. In his concluding chapter, he goes on to suggest that there are...