A moment of dreaming about higher education
...actually credit a course completion certificate from an online course, but we’re not in that world. In the world we actually live in, the difference between “real” and “online” courses...
Serf Boards
...money online using a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” as it’s colloquially known. MTurk was started in 2005 by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and director of Amazon Web...
Against TED
...events, focusing mostly but not exclusively on technology. TED has posted more than 1,100 videos of the talks online. By my count, 89 of them have achieved more than one...
"Art"
...Abrams in “Flatland;” it was arguably ever thus, but in a post-Internet economy in which art is primarily viewed onscreen and online, new strategies are both possible and necessary. The...
Model Behavior
...just how this goes: You dress for the office, you mold your online and offline persona to reflect well on the company, and even out of office hours, your “performance”...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...to "express ourselves" but we end up being willing to express whatever is necessary to get measurable increases in online impact. The possibility and plausiblity of a real self becomes...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Gentle Protests: An Interview with Andreas Malm
It might be necessary to consider escalating
In the Wake of An Erosion
...stake, here, is the notion that blackness is a general force of fugitivity that racialization in general, and the more specific instantiation of the color line, exacerbate and focus without...
At the Tip of the Javelin
Sport, Capital, and the Far Right
Sunday Reading, July 2nd 2023
...online just before Christmas last year. In a column helpfully labeled “Context,” the authors explained why “rule of thumb” should be nixed from readers’ usage. “Although no written record exists...
American Sajaegi
...wealthy clients’ behest. These firms offer services that are not so different from those advertised by bot formers selling SoundCloud plays and Instagram followers via online marketplaces like Fiverr. A...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...Eve Plumb, Lisa Hammer, and Lisa Ferber, and written by Ferber (whom you've met plenty of times on The Beheld before)—qualifies as madcap comedy. The second season is now online....
Fragments on microcelebrity
...once reserved for artists and aesthetes has been democratized -- now we can all treat our friends like characters in our online roman à clef! Only most artists don't seem...
Place Matters
...we do not truly engage in online content, preferring to “power browse.” We scan the headlines for information or search for items of temporary entertainment value. Our minds are working...