So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
...media, has an erotic element. Like anyone who commands attention, a writer controls and manipulates bodies, but as this new form of online writing â so far defined more by...
Footnote Records
...in it last year, cementing Rap Geniusâ place as one of 2012âs biggest online music coups. But Rap Genius presents problems old and new: Is the siteâs network of lyric...
Own to Rent
...image by imp kerr Social gaming and cloud computing are powerful alibis for always-on digital-rights management, which makes players into tenants SimCity, Electronic Artsâ online multiplayer reboot of...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...American Artist, A Refusal (2015), Online performance, Ongoing In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the...
A Week Late and A Story Short: "Whispering Trees"
...oral tradition in Africa and the folk tale in particular. Before you know it, the short story is declared a 'more distinctly African form'. Similarly, critics seek to find oral...
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
...Image | Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com form(alism) Writing about Ngwatilo Mawiyooâs poetry was easy: Iâve been reading her work for close to ten years and sheâs a friend....
American History
...dispelling the fog that so often hangs around Indians and their relation to the nation-state. First published in Canada where it has become a national bestseller, the book seems written...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
Il faut défendre la société contre les étudiants: Québec's Law 78
...like Canada or Great Britain. But. What this law explicitly demonstrates is that ânormativeâ is a moving standard, that it will be pegged to political outcomes and the desire of...
Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel
...not from QuĂ©bec, a fifth not from Canada, and we compose an international caste with prospects and a summer determinedly somewhere else. Itâs no accident that Americans have pooled at...
Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations
...sign of the general, one that requires the violent paid and unpaid exploitation of humans and resources in the service of the construction and circulation of commodities, it follows that...
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...the prospect of dying is not even a deterrent, because the only thing humans even do, anymore, is die. So what else is left? Nothing, apparently, is the answer....
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
...to conditions like heart disease.â The potential for applying feminist biology, however, is not limited to humans or hominids. Understanding and reflecting on bias can bring awareness throughout the experimental...
En passant
...giving it a collaborative, scientistic veneer, as if the quest for machine intelligence while resolve all the conflicts over intelligence among humans. The competing programmers are represented as "nerds" â...
Service-Animal Liberation
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
The Search for Posthumanism
...but he does not understand a word of Chinese. Computers rely on syntax. They can order and arrange symbols, but only humans have true understanding of what those symbols mean....