Me Meme
...threat that it will all go on their permanent record? The tension between the archive and the feed puts pressure on “authenticity,” which lingers on as a compass for the...
The overload
...This New York article by Casey Johnston about the death of the chronological feed colors within the lines of these sorts of pieces: It takes for granted that...
Public Spaces
...good reads, weird sites, and sharp jokes. Google Reader, the RSS feed aggregator, used to have a button that users could click to let friends see posts from blogs they...
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
Testing Beyond Control
...Live on Facebook — and He’s Negative.” NBCNews.com. July 14, 2016. The Royal test is the latest instance of a long -- and successful -- line of publicity efforts to...
Virus in the System
The radical collective Gay Shame keeps the flame of anticapitalist queer politics burning.
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics
...and medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Clear Satire
...an amateur comedian himself, he had come to decide that “satire” simply isn’t a thing, and that when people say any variation on “Well, it’s clearly satire,” they are talking...
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...of a green and verdant land for them to ride off into the sunset into. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbKSr3vb32U The novelty of the original Blade Runner was that it was detective noir in...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
Image source: Davis Enterprise. Most major U.S. colleges and universities issue emergency guidelines to their traveling students. Often these are based on travel alerts from the U.S....
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
...photo, a group was shown en masse in a cage, prompting a commentator to ask “Gorme xoloo noqoney?” - When did we become livestock? Kenya is Sliding Down a Slippery...
Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations
...in, and required by, the course of the chase) and produces a rupture, a dislocated effect rupture beyond the correct scale. And this is the comedic space of slapstick as...
Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World’s Fair
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
In Defense of Spontaneous Contestation and/or Beauty
...at a site he viewed as part of an 'exit culture' of Disneyfied commodity exchange. He bought various packaged commodities—toys and electronics and so forth—but instead of going home he...
The Sabotage of Time
...Bermejo River; Chaplin vs. Keaton; supply chains; Ballard; cunning and speed. Relevant links are here (reserve a free ticket at the first one if you're coming): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-manual-override-lecture-2-the-sabotage-of-time-tickets-10660867943 https://www.facebook.com/events/1425151034395572/ http://ctm.parsons.edu/manual-override-the-sabotage-of-capital/...
Infinite Jestice
...by the government's own legal and political advocates have become so commonplace that their 'efficacy' depends merely on streamlining them. If the baseball-card calculus of kill/capture lists on 'Terror Tuesdays'...