Change of Place: Kasarani-Gaza-Ferguson
...do not remember when I unlearned to say Moi, when the Moi International Sports Complex simply became its location, Kasarani. Partly, this is convenience. Partly, it was a small gesture...
Flag-waving And Drowning: On The New Branding Policy Of UKaid
...Thus development policy must be amnesiac and silent about this historical mess of indebtedness, and this latest branding exercise is another confirmation of this. Insisting on the bold display of...
Model Behavior
...were absolutely in agreement on this point. The latest right-on theories about eating disorders posit the diseases as a method that young women use to escape the stresses of modern...
Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation
...back. Meanwhile, I update my interlocutor, a curator based in Amsterdam, with the latest run-of-show. I drink iced tea and tinker with my slides until midnight. I wake up without...
Sunday Reading
...$1 billion in commissions in 2011.” Thus instead of providing free public higher education, the federal government is lending students huge amounts of money that they can never pay back,...
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
Marginal Returns
...was the only widely distributed non-genre black film distributed by American studios, other than the latest embarrassments from Tyler Perry and Kevin Hart. This partially explains the sudden anger by...
Rootless and Ruthless
...networks. It has to be war. Occupy is the latest declaration of it: The clue is in the name. Over the past two years, I’ve seen organizing, occupying, squatting, resisting;...
Secret Admirer #4 @ Harbor Gallery 11/7
...He will be reading an excerpt from some of his latest fan fiction. Jacob Bakkila is a video and conceptual artist and part of the art collective Synydyne. His installation...
We Will Never Get Away From The Sprawl
...whose latest album The Suburbs was released last week, are maybe even more than any other groups of nice musicians with holes in their sweaters and hearts bleeding on their...
All The Hungry Children
...image by imp kerr To sell sympathy for starvation, Live Aid and its successors have started using the latest in branding innovation In 2004, the British press reported...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 63: Patriots
It's an affirmation of what people of color have always known
Sunday Reading
...Auctions. Beyond the legacy parties. Musical chairs in the medico-industrial complex. Mr. Free Speech (as long as it's not about him). Oppose tech's tax breaks or privileges? You're their target,...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 22
...part of my life, and I like my radio public. I prefer my airwaves commercial free and not traveling in every new direction that groupthink takes us. Unfortunately, WNYC, my...
The Eaten World
...eye. Knowing full well the limits of these metrics, I found myself reading through the latest journal articles for a sense of what the results might mean for me and...
Editors' Note, Vol. 47: Goodnight
...This is the editorial note to TNI Vol. 47: Goodnight. View the full table of contents here. Subscribe to TNI for $3 and get Goodnight (and free access to...