Nicole Kristal, Writer and Bisexual Advocate, Los Angeles
...at LGBT festivals internationally. (You can rent it for $2 at BuskFilms.com , and I suggest you do exactly that.) Author, yes—her (hilarious) book, The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe...
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Sunday Reading
...of black Americans is nearly the same as the rate of lynchings in the early decades of the 20th century" What I've learned from two years collecting data on police...
Sunday Reading
...Cams Give Cops The Power To Google Everything They See A reporter’s arrest crystallizes her commitment to cover Standing Rock The United States of oil and gas Stalkscan Is A...
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
Self-Help
...not society that needs to change. But self-help also touches on sites of potential resistance: rather than be friendly, Cutterham suggests we re-politicize the notion of friendship. In “Data Occupations,”...
Birth of the Commune
...the speeches presenting well-meaning statistical data about women’s labor could not have begun to create. They allow an understanding of the present, in its unfolding, as historical, as changing. Paradoxically,...
Sunday Reading
...for corporate paramilitaries . Privileged access to data . Shailja Patel: June Jordan would have turned 77 this week Silence is a good man Carpet Karaoke: the uncivil business of...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.7.13
...country's economy. Under the sea: Do your part to combat overfishing: Buy more beauty products containing jellyfish. It takes a village, people. Busted: Yes, there is such a...
Seeing Things
...the foreground with a nude Black model standing behind him. Smith points out, “The hazy, atmospheric aesthetics and theatrical performances of pictorialism might be understood to transform the body from...
Body Mass Index
...this form-hugging Lycra underwear,” Parazynski told Vulture, “which I must say looked good.” When another astronaut, Chris Hadfield, complained about the underwear on Conan O’Brien, the late-night host lifted an...
Beyond Belief
...is striking. Former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers explains that “the sense was that we had to do whatever we had to do to stop the war” and that “the...
Selfie Control
...tracking his own every move, after being wrongfully targeted by the FBI, intentionally produces a surfeit of data that effectively renders itself unreadable. Elahi notes, “A lot of work is...
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 1
...all, and it was too much to remember, even as it happened. Each moment filled the entirety of my available memory, swollen with tiny pins of light and data, and,...
Counterproductive
...basis of his rat's nest of data, he concludes: Thus we reach the conclusion that the colored race is showing every sign of an undermined constitution, a diseased manhood and...
Sunday Reading
..."They Cannot Breathe: Poisoned Workers in Nail Salons" Enchanting By Numbers Data (V.) Driverless Dreams (Video) The Facebook "It's Not Our Fault" Study Bastard Algebra The Emerging Neoliberal Penality:Rethinking Foucauldian...