City Under Siege
...Cities Under Siege with a chapter about “countergeographies” that might be created to overturn this new military urbanism. The discussion comes a bit late in the game—on the order of...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...It cuts. There are a series of close-ups. An old rat looking out toward the horizon as if it has crucial data to reveal regarding tactics. A small paw gripping...
I Have No Memory of It
...The Girl with No Memory by Usra Elmadhoun (2011). From the 52 Weeks Series. artclvb. Transcribed data on the fate of some paintball gunshots, flames, hammers, pig’s legs,...
Summer Heat
...social workers? Why have we become so comfortable with ceding so much power to the police? Any discussion of reform must begin with the following questions: How will we decrease...
Sunday Reading
...you their fees; AT&T won't tell you data usage measure. WalMart won't tell workers next week's hours; prevalent precarity. Algorithmic serfdom; algo-driven speech; algo trading ban; mega-trades. Keep on trucking:...
Sunday Reading
...market accumulation + drone militarism = grow or die. One company holds 700 billion data points on 1.3 billion people. Privatization of profit, socialization of risk. The Matrix of Electricity...
Sunday Reading
...Trouble With Anti-Antiracism EVISCERATIONS and EPIC RANTS New evidence on the peopling of the Pacific On banter, bonding and Donald Trump Ava Kofman: Social Media Provides Data to a Surveillance...
Sunday Reading
...balm we apply to our uneasy consciences about extinction.” Scientific Consent, Data, and Doubling Down on the Internet AlJavieera: A critique of contemporary 'pre-critical' asceticism in architectural design, by Douglas...
Sunday Reading
...whole afternoon trying to figure out if I’m a Bert or an Ernie. Pixar’s rules on how to write a story. Power Plant Mercury Emissions Poisoning the Great Lakes. Federal...
Yer Cheatin' Heart: Beauty and Infidelity
...data: Since there’s no pattern here as far as actual behavior, there’s little use fretting about one’s own appearance in conjunction with infidelity. I know that when I’ve been cheated...
Under Our Skins
...conscious of the trade-offs. We exchange privacy for product discounts, status, or opportunities of social interaction, harming nobody in the process. By contrast, the stealth collection of data by many...
Pasado Compuesto
...to come under criticism for their heavy reliance on biblical citations, classical analogies, and the testimony of unreliable witnesses. The new model that emerged in response, which in broad strokes...
Sunday Reading
...Delhi) Stage Mothers: A Women's Theater in Rural Turkey (this one's subscriber-only, alas, but it's so good that I'm linking anyway) nathan jurgenson "Behaving as if our digital data is...
No, You're So Pretty: Compliments, Part I
...“accept” compliments about half as often as men—we’re taught to be deferential and modest and bashful and all that, right? But looking at this data, it’s clear that women know...
Canceled Message (Part Two)
...knowledge) save for the one I keep offline. There is no data storage center to aim a "delete tweet" command to. Formation and deletion work in unlikely harmony, like those...
Depthless Psychology
...repetitive, listing style reads like an instruction manual for feeling or an assembling of affects from their component parts, as if Tomkins could use the right combination of feeling-data to...