Bodies of Water
...which is always already prepared to dispose of these othered humans along lines of racialized poverty. Disappearance in this sense, of the necropolitical creation of disposable classes that are prone...
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
American Woman
Wonder Woman unsettles superheroes from within a national tradition that demands their existence
Dead Can Dance
...dead aren’t gone, they’re somewhere, and they’re something. That’s why the whole thing works. A dog doesn’t have a sense that a dead dog is anywhere, but humans believe that...
Spoiler, Serial
...cops: Research shows that ordinary human beings lie a lot — multiple times a day — even when there’s no clear benefit to lying. Generally, humans lie about relatively minor...
Real Human Being
...up. It was as if, with the arrival of white protestors, the mainstream had found a reason for Ferguson to matter: the Real Humans had taken the stage. The work...
Toward Freedom
...grandiose fashion by the spotlight of History. It infuses a new rhythm, specific to a new generation of humans, with a new language and a new humanity. Decolonization is truly...
Body, face, desire
...In the completely bipedal Homo sapiens, this resulted in the vulvo-cryptic phenomenon, i.e. concealed female genitals in humans. The unique morphology of the human female pelvis served as an obstacle...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Rhythms of Change: The Victorian Science Poems of May Kendall
...that, while humans have evolved in terms of brain capacity, human history makes it hard to assign any moral value to that evolution. But, in a clever move, the arguments...
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We’re Gonna Need A Better Script: Uneven Representation of Women Scientists in Shark Films
...these categories. The most common portrayal is of a woman with emotional/empathetic connections to the earth, animals, and other humans. These women are mother/scientists who care for their teammates/co-workers or...
How Careful She Must Be: Midwives, Maternal Minds, and Monstrous Births
...The subject of generation — the processes through which humans produced more humans — received intense scientific interest in the 17th and 18th centuries. Despite advances in microscopes, anatomical preparation,...
Talking Like a “Princess”: What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
...Simply put, technology begets both pain and pleasure for those with disabilities. Humans craft speech technology that other humans use to speak. Synthetic voice options for anyone except cis white...
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
Conspicuous Consumption
...awareness, compassion, empathy and justice. Detect no difference between raising humans for food and raising nonhuman animals for food. Would never kill a healthy nonhuman animal under any circumstance –...
Fact Check!
...reality.” The app aims to go beyond the capabilities of humans by using an algorithm to parse political speech in real time and “determine semantic intent and context that would...