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...
The Other Occupy Movement
...has the highest rate of unemployment in Spain, at about 10 percent above the national average of 25 percent. Using census data, the Spanish daily El País reported earlier this...
#NotAllPublic, Heartburn, Twitter
...the power to say which is which, and make it true; being an ethical person in the world, however, must recognize that calling anything “fair game” is inevitably a first...
Vol. 17 Editors' Note: Rules of the Game
...and a beer fridge and a big open office without cubicles and no benefits and an 80-hour work week! Play with us! Or play around at home on special projects!...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Sunday Reading
...conference in Baltimore & urban big data conference in NYC. Bint Battuta: Simone's Funeral: Egyptian Lives, Jewish Deaths in 21st-Century Cairo A requiem for the Jaffna Library The future of...
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Hate on Me
...voices of young people, trans people, people of color, and poor people. Their members come from the communities already targeted by police violence and are thus best situated to understand...
The Eaten World
...for physical vigor that civilization has elsewhere degraded. Data suggest that microbial diversity is often higher in remote populations, but the health implications of this difference remain conjectural. Even so,...
The Suit
...came from a tree on an idyllic jungle plot. It’s far more likely that the rubber is synthetic, born of some chemical compound with an unpronounceable name. I blunder through...
Jagged Little Pill
...women about the power of oral contraceptives to harm our health and keep us under the heel of patriarchal capitalism. Unfortunately, any good points she makes are lost amid a...
The Ego's Death Trip
...therein belonged to a program for soliciting data from some 700 participants of Carhart-Harris’s study with the goal of confirming the specificity of ego dissolution occasioned by psychedelics versus the...
Sunday Reading
...Non-Reproductive Futurism An Interview with Saskia Sassen Bringing Guantanamo to Park Avenue Big Data, New Epistemologies and Paradigm Shifts A Sociology of Algorithms (video) Angry Olives Practically Marzipan: What 'Black...
Sunday Reading
...right to scuttle her commencement address American kids have to be protected from chopsticks Import.io Turns Web Pages Into a Useable Data Table Things to Know When Talking About Race...
Vol. 22 Editors' Note: Self-Help
...suggests we re-politicize the notion of friendship. In “Data Occupations,” Whitney Erin Boesel defends the Quantified Self movement against its high-profile detractors and finds in it the potential for nurturing...