Spring Break Forever
...Presenting The New Inquiry's first free supplement, a pdf collection of eight critical essays on Harmony Korine's Disneyland dystopia Spring Breakers Download Spring Break Forever here. Introduction No Carries,...
Fire This Time?
Kenya’s Referendum on Public Values
Sunday Reading
...to usher in a post-human robo-dystopia!” Some of this is valid, some of it…okay, most of it is valid. But sometimes, the public discourse over drones like me becomes so...
Il faut défendre la société contre les étudiants: Québec's Law 78
...a fire insurance policy that is not valid in cases of fire. I’m talking, of course, about the passage yesterday of Québec's Bill 78 – which lasts for one year...
Fully Surreal Luxury Communism
...political ideas into pictures is useful to illustrate party posters, but it does not follow that the only valid role for the artist is to paint pictures exclusively confined to...
You Probably Think This Bot Is About You
When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.
Sunday Reading
...1988 that forced Pretoria to set Namibia free and helped break the back of apartheid South Africa.” “The tree that says ‘yes’: Césaire’s Nature and Revolutionary Universalism” “‘Why is this...
Sunday Reading
...UC regents meet this week at the remote, securitized UCSF Mission Bay campus. Agendas worth checking out: the Committee on Finance (pdf) lists 20+ lawsuits with bearing on the UC,...
Sunday Reading
...nathan jurgenson: “A simple piece of software got us through the dark ages of computing” "The Decelerator Helmet is an experimental approach for dealing with our fast moving society...a...
Towards a 'Moral' Assassination Model
...Funeral inside Gaza City Mosque following an Israeli drone attack that killed three people, including a five-year old child, during Operation Pillar of Cloud. Image by Christopher Furlong/Getty...
Five Questions with Christopher Rey Pérez
...the narrated story of a serial killer. I haven’t seen much of Adachi’s work because it can be difficult searching for torrents and generally subsisting on the circulation of poor...
Are You Being Sex Trafficked?
...the bills, just like everyone else. Sometimes it’s great and sometimes it’s not, but that doesn’t make our consent—or our right to claim our own agency—any less. DOWNLOAD? I made...
Visitors
...save image link to download mix Next week, Old Money and Lamin Fofana will release the first of a series of three singles with Dutty Artz examining mysteries...
Blogging the Caine, 2013
...(all of which are available for download as pdfs at that link). Join us! Some of us are academics, most of us are not, but all of us are basically...
Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Beauty, Los Altos, California
...a woman who has wanted to have good makeup at her disposal without reading women’s magazines like a part-time job. Her creation is deceptively simple: You download the Kokko app,...
Vinyl re-enchantment
...records I hope to come across some day, but since I can download all this music to actually listen to it, I am more invested in the quest itself than...