European Pie
...A few days later, the recording appeared online on a dummy site set up to look like it belonged to Musavat, the opposition party. She refused a convenient path of...
Thoughts on a Word: Exotic
...prolific listmaker who goes online by Kawaii has wondered the same thing. I’m uncomfortable with most discussions that parse out any individual women’s looks with a fine-tooth comb, but the...
Sunday Reading
...L.D. Burnett: "I’m here, at a small 'university,' watching a purge of the work of thousands of intellects." Every number of Partisan Review digitized, online, and free This...
LinkedOut
...their companies to conduct web searches on prospects, and 70 percent of recruiters have jettisoned candidates for information found online. The hiccup, though, is the legally protected information to which...
The New Inquiry Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel: Livestream
...Welcome to the online home for our Issue Two: Youth celebration! We're pleased to present one of the buried gems of late 60's youth-power exploitation cinema, Wild in The...
Safe in Our Archives
...how the self has been or will be recorded, how that self will turn up as an artifact of online searches. In other words, we are all life-loggers, whether we...
Bugs
...of the real. In “Virulence in the Virtual,” Remina Greenfield writes about the “first extensively printed account of virtual rape,” which took place in 1993 through a text-based online community...
Sunday Reading
...past two years social media has also become an increasingly hostile place for women writers and journalists" "to design with an eye to how clothes look online, perhaps sacrificing how...
Presenting Men
Some considerations...
The Petraeus Affair: Infidelity, Beauty, and Scapegoating
...use a makeover, and the aforementioned comment-section trolls, the only mention of Holly Petraeus’s looks I could find by poking around online comes from...well, Meghan Daum, and people rightfully echoing...
Rhizome Call for Papers and Projects on E-Cigarettes and Vaping Technologies
...wide net for histories, essays, artworks, workshops, and polymorphous contributions to shape this inquiry to be held online and off. Be in touch... Deadline Nov 12 More info ...
EMP Pop Conference @ NYU 4/18-19
...range of issues pertaining to the region's musical landscape. The 2-day conference will feature multimedia keynote presentations by legendary producer Joe Boyd and a live-streamed discussion with singer/composer/online entrepreneur Amanda...
Bad News
...rapid online circulation of information felt faintly dated, as if Laser hasn’t noticed the expansion of platforms like Twitter and Facebook. The script was fashioned from an incoherent mass of...
Beautiful Weapons
...partners through the use of symbols, a game about hacking cupcakes designed to be played by a live audience, and an online multiplayer game about hungry ghosts sucking identity from...
Men
...enemy (a man). Or I was a man but not the enemy. I learned about trans online, and (except when I am) I’m not sorry. Another way to put this,...
Independent Poetry and the Pleasures of Concrete
...below it’. It is no coincidence, perhaps, that Onsando has previously participated in collaborative projects that combine images (Kenyan photography) with text (Kenyan poetry) such as the online Koroga Project,...