The History of Dialogue: Other People’s Papers
...it as a study guide she would have done very well—certainly at least passing—on the final exam. C: So we’ve got a case of the buying of the paper. That’s...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
No Mushroom Cloud
...within an ecosystem, Tsing calls those disparate places patches. The assemblage of species in a given patch produces all sorts of raw materials and nonhuman and human labor that are...
At the Tip of the Javelin
Sport, Capital, and the Far Right
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...materials and describes them as worth seeing, even when it does so by pointing out the irrelevance of the images. It says: Freeze, there’s something to see here. The last...
Green Nightmares
Fossil fuel resistance and repression are escalating
What Does a Woman Know?
...with the burdens of work. This work largely lacks the infrastructure for understanding that scientists sometimes must be able to care for families and participate in a professional capacity. In...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...problem, making expression into a series of discrete items to be counted, ranked. It serves as the infrastructure for a feedback loop that orients expression toward the anxiety of what...
Enigma Deviations
...investigations into his death began to ensure that any of the sensitive materials he’d had access to wouldn’t be compromised. The investigation was instead. Mysteries emerged and remained mysteries. Who...
Fire Escape
...fireplace at his country house in Bellagio. The phrase, etched into the minds and materials of T.P. Valera and his son, is one they want to impress onto the women...
Cross-Border Operations
...the growth and profitability of the border-industrial complex and, more importantly, gives rise to a border infrastructure that assembles government, non-government and corporate entities into organizational systems. What contracts do...
Fuck Forever and Never Die
...wilderness. The story is a kind of catnip to stimulate the player's need to keep searching for a purpose, to expect there to be a summary logic to everything. In...
Public Spaces
...and now the chairman of Brookfield—a man whose professional biography describes the muddling of public and private structure that became embodied in the park that bears his name. Zuccotti Park...
Mom-Poet
A conversation with poet and mom Montana Ray about sexism in the poetry scene
Everything is a Target—Full Text of Interview with Peter Galison
...Containment. It’s about this necessary and impossible problem of containing nuclear materials for the very long term. Plutonium has a half-life of about 24,100 years, which means that it’s half...