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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Other Foot
...on authenticity in online communities, I began interviewing personal style bloggers, becoming more interested in girls and women who showed off clothes from Target or Goodwill than those who, like...
Softer Than Softcore
...meridian response (ASMR) has become the focal point of a robust community of online enthusiasts. In its protoplasmic early life on blogs and message boards, it was simply dubbed “the...
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
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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...
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...
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...them has been published online yet. It's 130+ pages of original, unseen critical work on drones, illustrated and designed by Imp Kerr. As far as we can tell, it's the...
Vol. 19 Editors' Note: "Art"
...art is primarily viewed onscreen and online, new strategies are both possible and necessary. The alleged democratization effect afforded by networked technologies is often posited as the most significant recent...