This Week in Art Crime
...and remote corners of states with lots of space. They’re out of sight, and out of mind. Prison Map reveals this vast hidden infrastructure. The rapid expansion of the country’s...
The Enduring Legacy of Basquiat’s Hair
...Jean-Michel Basquiat had a professional career that lasted just nine years, but in that time he managed to make himself one of the most significant painters of the...
Art, Work, and Refusal
...a professional dancer and choreographer with 16 years of experience working in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and I hold a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from...
Working Beauty
...women’s work, even that of men. No wonder the young professional woman beams down at us from real estate billboards as the paradigmatic image of achievement … At this point...
The Management Estate
Objectivity in American newsrooms is a pastiche of colonial subjectivities
The Development Imaginary: Tracks*
...as a professional class?) Competition for donor resources Project-driven goals Expectations driven by economic rationales (so, whether projects become “self-sustaining” or “economically profitable) as opposed to political goals Creation of...
Betrayal!
...the tradition had compromised itself so thoroughly. Otherwise, I’d be laughed out of town with my professional reputation in ruins. After all these years of sober, studied analysis, I’d end...
Comfortably Worn: Review of "The Worn Archive"
...photo shoots (which appear to feature what has come be termed as "real women," as opposed to professional models; I even caught some leg hair, shown not as a gender-rad...
Rape Culture: The War At Home
...and brothers and uncles and cousins and friends and colleagues ensure that their domestic, professional and public environments are safe and supportive of human dignity for all. All these men...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.7.12
...for giving illegal cosmetic breast injections. Ich bin ein Supermodel: Remember when that German magazine stopped using professional models, vowing to only use non-pro women in their pages? Yeah, didn't...
Red Holidays of Genius
...sensory affinity between seemingly disparate materials. Contattile, for example, indicates "the tactile affinity between a given material and the taste of another," as in "the contattile of the banana puree...
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
...space charts the ways in which digital surveillance technology structures national sovereignty by mediating spectacle. At the same time, the objects themselves appear remarkably ordinary. Composed of mundane materials, “Complex...
Police Mortality
...their upcoming "film," Police Mortality. In their words, Police Mortality is Anti-Banality's latest wish-fulfillment symptomology of, as one character hallucinates it, "a precisely formulated national conspiracy of police genocide." Imprecise,...
Facebook division of labor and the rewired society
...world’s information infrastructure should resemble the social graph — a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather than the monolithic, top-down structure that has existed to date. Zuckerberg's...
Model Architecture: Breaking Godwin’s Law
...“The only one to fix the infrastructure of our country is me—roads, airports, bridges. I know how to build” —@RealDonaldTrump, May 2015  THE master architect of Hitler’s infrastructural...
Introduction
...peoples into indigent squatters. Many are still undocumented as Kenyan citizens. Studied neglect by successive governments has left the hinterland and margins of the country without basic infrastructure and services,...