Social graph vs. social class
...computer power and elaborate algorithms to interpret and trace out underlying patterns of significance. Generally, only capital has the resources to summon such power, so the commonalities called into being...
This Week in Art Crime
...Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, who operates under the artistic moniker Rokude Nashiko (translation: "reprobate child"), was indicted last week on charges that she distributed "obscene" data in the form of...
Assets
...themselves becoming prey. New commodity forms such as NFTs and crypto insist that the world is now pure exchange value, meatless data ricocheting in a frictionless ouroboros while global shortages...
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...
Devils in Red Dress
...by a municipal committee. One male speed dater is shown grinning as he lifts his cell phone to take data from a barcode sticker affixed to a woman’s sleeve. She,...
Will Davies @ Bluestockings and Powerhouse
...Will Davies, author of The Data Sublime, will be celebrating the publication of his new book, The Happiness Industry, with two events in New York City. One in...
Sunday Reading
...truncations, the ominous declarations - were now coming fast and hard." Was Horse_ebooks playing to its newfound audience? Unmasking Horse_ebooks might also, I thought, lessen my unease at having watched...
Turtles from the Shells
...dotcom boom, competing to discover the next big thing, and counting on a housing market that allowed us to refinance our ways to home ownership. No money down. Of course,...
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Sunday Reading
...and how the digital age talks about death Serfing the Net The Power of the Isolated Vocal Track Nipplegate Revisited: Why America Owes Janet Jackson a Huge Apology Distorted I'm...
Sunday Reading
...in India today is similar to the McCarthy era': Partha Chatterjee Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online This Radical Librarian May Soon Run...
Becoming a Leak
Institutions track us through our blood, sweat, and tears, but embracing leakiness has the potential to be a productive experience for an individual
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, December 15, 2015
...learning, the technique by which computers analyze vast troves of data to learn skills like recognizing photos, identifying spoken words, understanding natural language, and, maybe one day, mimicking common sense....
My Two Dads
...mechanical data output, is part of the American machinery. (This is not an issue but it is also a bottom line.) _____ From CAConrad's 'say it with grEEn paint for...
Sunday Reading
...the academy Big data and big-profit colleges "The NCAA is like a dictatorship" Northwestern football players move to unionize The rolling apocalypse of contemporary history The other domain: Oakland's parallel...
Selfies without the self
...breaks us out of the cage of static identity, but the platforms they are posted to shove us back in, associating and attempting to integrate all the data they generate....