Liquid authenticity
...Frédéric Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital helps clarify how two of the fantasies that feed neoliberal ideology — liquidity and authenticity — interrelate. The two concepts represent two...
The Honeyed Siphon
...enforcement of diet “may be comparatively easy to effect in private practice [i.e. with those who can afford it]; but in the case of the poor, especially the outpatient poor,...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.10.12
...to ye olde internet. It's a Twitter feed for your face! Disability visibility: An intriguing trio of academic papers focusing on appearance and disability: prosthetics as accessories; acceptance and rejection...
Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism.
Appetites
...have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process of feeding one another has broken the...
Venerated Members
...suggested that there were so many different Holy Prepuces because it could, like the fish and loaves, multiply to feed hungry pilgrims. In the official liturgy, the foreskin performed wonders...
The Collection and the Cloud
...feed the algorithms by response. Our relationship with interfaces is social: we’ve become so familiar with interfaces that we now expect them to behave themselves, in part to set an...
Together We Are None
...also able to stay behind and keep watching through a video feed. There’s a poetic sort of stress about where to go for the authentic experience. Early on, I was...
The Things We Do
...and feed her. Then, with the boy properly swathed in backcloth, she carried him home and presented him to Luzze. Oh, the celebrations. The jubilation. They went on for weeks...
Baby Heists
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
Fires of Resistance
...call “discursive ammunition” for our current struggles, words to feed the fire. With an eye to life beyond colonial-capitalist enclosures and relations, Red Skin White Masks unmasks the present, in...
Bad Subjects
...window and feed in simulacral form.) Repeatedly dreamed of rabbits in the months leading up to entering art school, and again each time I leaped into new artwork. It’s easy...
Spotivangelism
...generalized other,” but I still feel like a creepy stalker every time I click on his (or anyone else’s) activity in my feed; social discovery sans dialogue remains deeply disconcerting....
Oculus Birth
...experience." Figure 5: The live feed. Figure 6: The mother experiences the birth of her child from the child's perspective. Figure 7: Crowning. Figure 9: "Happy Birthday." Figure 10: The...
The Networked Assembly Line
...of their business model. For example, Facebook uses machine learning to continually adjust what you see in your news feed by using your past activity to make a prediction about...
The New Inquiry Vol. 48: Appetites
...eating disorder of a different kind: They have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process...