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....
Reacting to Reactions
...believe that the News Feed inspires us with a series of real feelings, when in fact we are suspending whatever complicated feelings we might have for the relief of just...
Living Chess
...Lady Thomas appears in only one game on the popular chessgames.com database, from the first Women’s International Chess Congress in 1897, which she lost to Mary Rudge, the ultimate champion...
Open Wide
...the commons. Are digital commons and urban commons doomed to feed the hand that bites them? Perhaps not. Among all the contradictions of the commons, Harvey identifies one that provides...
Sunday Reading
...they are not the center of everyone else’s universe" googlepoetics.com soundsjustlike.com adultcatfinder.com zunguzungu: Currently reading Lorraine Adams' Harbor. Whiteness and Tokenism on the Runway Collapsing Factories and the “End Death...
Sunday Reading
...globalization such that they’ve begun to ignore geography" hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com; tweetpairing.tumblr.com; wtfevolution.tumblr.com; actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com T.F. Charlton: "So, what was Stonewall?" - NPR's erasure of trans women from the Stonewall narrative. Interrogating the...
Narrative of Fragments
...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...
Don't Be a Stranger
...logic as an underground punk club is from a computer lab? Once upon a time this social network did exist, and it was called Makeoutclub.com. Nobody much talks about Makeoutclub.com...
Where the Hell Do You Think You Are?
...in miniature in one scene. Thirty minutes in, Charlie is chased through the ghetto by Nazi stormtroopers. Charlie’s sweetheart Hannah (played by his real life half-Jewish wife Paulette Goddard) comes...
Seeing Stars
...Courtesy artificialgallery.co.uk MAY1ZZZ, lilo Lindsay Lohan fanpop.com Taranenko, Rihanna, 2011 DeviantArt.com Brothers De La Motte, Paris Hilton’s selfie, Undated imsoqueer, Mary-Kate, 2011 DeviantArt.com Cameron Gray, Oops...I did it again, 2007...
'Tis the Season: The Beheld Gift Guide
...keeps on giving. (I also sort of want to do my part to reclaim the flask for women; the "Flask Gift Set for Women" at eflask.com isn't quite cutting it.)...
Blue Skies
...leader for storing and managing video evidence in the cloud through its business division Axon. Taser’s software and storage brand, Evidence.com, promises to collect and share digital evidence. But keeping...
Sunday Reading
...Academic Job Market CUNY Declares War on Rebel Faculty Painkiller Post What Happened to Shulamith Firestone Telegraph Avenue http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/how-coal-brought-us-democracy-and-oil-ended-it-lessons-from-the-new-book-carbon-democracy.html http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/romney-will-solve-crisis-exact-same-gop-plan-2008-2006-2004 Debt Resistors' Operations Manual The Worst Teacher in Chicago No,...
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...flicks a feed. My interest doesn't lie in the general anthropological overhaul bound up with the digital, for which the phone has come to serve as one particularly visible index....
Old Neighbors, New Battles
Rekindling Indigenous relations against colonial violence
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
...Image | Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com form(alism) Writing about Ngwatilo Mawiyoo’s poetry was easy: I’ve been reading her work for close to ten years and she’s a friend....