Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
Sunday Reading
...temples Russia's mosques Bangalore's Cooke Town India's Islamic poster art Sudan's Jewish community Portugal's Indian communities Istanbul's Armenian communities Judeo-Persian Bibles Urdu Bible Maps of paradise Maps with sea monsters...
Sunday Reading
...fast "If, after so many years of controlling student behavior, analyzing their data to understand and curtail that behavior, we are still unhappy with their performance, perhaps it’s time we...
The Nonviolent/Violent Dichotomy
...women. However, no one seems to know how many abuse survivors are arrested and prosecuted for actions stemming from abuse because no agency tracks this data. In 1999, the U.S....
Sunday Reading: April 30, 2023
...Silicon Valley demonstrate how venture capital culture trained a generation of people to build and fund apps, not sustainable businesses––and then marry those apps to industries a lot more complex...
Vol. 31 Editor's Note: Mourning
...cycle but in the vast and overlapping expanses of time and calculation explored by Manuel Abreu in an essay on lethal algorithms. Our daily communications become a mass of data...
Sunday Reading
...Toward a Politics of Measure Google’s Newest Search: Cancer Cells Review: Dog Eat Dog Data and Discrimination: Collected Essays Writing About Academic Labor In Praise of Fake Reviews Studs Terkel...
Sunday Reading
...power of mobilized students and the current limits of this power." Selling (out) the good old days Two months of New York Times opinion essays about higher education On the...
Sunday Reading
...Happy Labor Thanksgiving Day weekend Oral histories from Canada's Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion veterans of the Spanish Civil War Crowd-digitized historical weather data The music industry has gone from from individual swindles...
Sunday Reading
...Commons: The Struggle to Control Our Data Behind the Screen The Breakfast Club, Thirty Years Later: A Conversation Across Generations The Divine Witches of Cyberspace Full Employment for the Future...
Sunday Reading
...moving through or around; it’s no wonder we use it as a euphemism for dying.” Access Main Computer File: a visual archive of fake UI Succeeding in Graduate School Despite...
The Carceral State
...a post-incarceration world and the importance of queering our conversations around the prison-industrial complex. What is unique about the Californian narrative of incarceration and policing? How has the history of...
The Judge From Central Casting
...what if we’re looking inside a person for something that only exists outside of them? That Kavanaugh lies constantly is an important data point, but it’s the kind of lies...
Information inundation and social deskilling
...to select them. What matters is not the social or sensual experience to be derived from goods but the signifying power they have in networks to communicate our status —...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.21.12
...whether the company inappropriately contacted analysts during the bribery investigation, so the heat is still very much on Avon—not that that matters to the financial world, which saw a 2%...
Mourning
...and calculation explored by Manuel Abreu in an essay on lethal algorithms. Our daily communications become a mass of data mobilized by state agencies to kill; the NSA turns the...