Sunday Reading
...Labor, and the Sharing Economy Salon.com Recognizes Union Belabored Podcast #82: Labor Rising in New Media (audio) Google Express Workers May Unionize The Future of Work in the Uber Economy...
PACBI Now
...Ferguson. It was published on Artforum.com under the tenure of David Velasco, who was recently fired by the magazine’s parent company, Penske Media Corporation, for publishing another open letter, signed...
The Secret Shopper
...always used to justify precarious labor. “You are free to turn down any job that doesn’t interest you,” promises MysteryShoppersAmerica.com. “You are always free to take off as much time...
Resisting The Chilling Effect
...disagreed. This isn’t to say that the list was a raging hotbed of disputes and denunciations — Politico’s Walter Shapiro compared it to “cafeteria chatter.” Journolist, after all, was an...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.24.13
...in her cover-story interview with Allure makes it spike in lookups at Merriam-Webster.com. Sabbath Sharpie: Perhaps inspired by the recent case of an Orthodox Jewish woman suing Lancôme over the...
Just Another Princess Movie
...it’s not predictable, it’s not Just Another Princess Movie, and it’s not — my God! — lacking for deeper layers. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected]. Insofar as Pixar...
Sarah Leonard Speaks at Occupy the Page
...the Indypendent, Sarah Leonard of DISSENT and The New Inquiry, and Nathan Schneider of Waging Nonviolence and occupywriters.com . Theodore Kerr of 12th StreetJournal, moderates. 12th Street is the award-winning...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
...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....
Emergency Supplies
...the Huffington Post. CNN.com began their feature with this: “It’s midsummer in London and it’s raining.” It later refers to the event as a “delightful deluge.” How did all this...
Where in the world is…Cathy Carlston?
...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....
Desiring Machines
...An attraction-machine now takes the place, or may take the place, of a repulsion-machine: a miraculating-machine succeeding the paranoiac machine. — Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus "Desiring Machines": [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/02/05-Desiring-Machines-EDIT2.mp3|titles=Desiring Machines]...
Not for You
...In 2015, Avengers 2, Jurassic World and Star Wars brought a slight rebound, but that year’s sales remained below 2013’s numbers. Nonetheless, theater owners’ and movie companies’ profits keep going...
Kindergarten/Cops
...It's as if the bodies of adults are too big to feel the magnitude of Send your responses to [email protected] injustice and despair experienced by an upset kid. But the...
How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Sunday Reading
...Digital Afterlife Varies of Lewdness, 1795 Remember the time Edith Wharton Wrote Erotica? Aaron Sorkin Bungles the Sixties Rebecca Solnit: Apologies to Mexico Confessions of a Dot Com Entrepreneur Kissinger...