World Melodrama: Opfergang, 1944
...let me know, and I'll try to find a way to get it to you. Omnia sunt communia, especially a century's worth of tears and bareback horseback riding.] You,...
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...The right-wing backlash against this Budweiser commercial is the best praise you can give it, like when Fox News described “No Fascist US” as “anti-Trump graffiti.” The ad...
Little Yellow Boy Giant, Terrorist
...by his presence. But the question of the semiotic effect of the masked figure remains, and that is what aroused the ire of more than 600 commenters (and at least...
The Souls of Drone Folk
...cowboy; he’s an executioner, just one piece of a complex machine. He does his job, does what he is told to do: "Marines are coming," said my chief as the...
Where is the Line Between Us?
...watched from the audience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nT1Xkl6xnsE At this time, many Iranians all over the the world are watching us and I imagine them to be very happy. They are happy not...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...one verse and deal with intersections of network culture and urban communities of black and Latino youth, the traditional purview of hip-hop and other genres. One song, "Don't Feed the...
Chestnut Economics
...family of five could look forward to three hours of such work -- and this simply to prepare enough to feed themselves. The drudgery of the chestnut harvest nonetheless failed...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.18.13
...Is Just Awful"—before I saw the portrait in question, and was all, "Aw, c'mon, it can't be THAT bad," and then I clicked through my feed to see the picture,...
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
...Darfur. It is a place without history and without politics; simply a site where perpetrators clearly identifiable as ‘Arabs’ confront victims clearly identifiable as ‘Africans’. 6. Teju Cole’s twitter feed,...
Tree Sitting
...also the animals that feed on them: "Academic culture is a huge and diverse ecosystem. People who come along with grand plans about how everything is going to be transformed...
The Slow Politics of Occupied Filmmaking
...we hang on the feed, attempting to catch a glimpse of the "real" action, the money shot of tear gas canisters exploding or the baton falling. We have to, because...
Breakfast in Bedlam
...to feed lunatics anything to break their nightly fast. They were allowed only supper (called lunch today) and dinner. And these meals had to be bland and meager so as...
Death Stares
...catches glimpses of digital ghosts, as dead friends’ accounts flicker past in the News Feed. As users of social media age, it is inevitable that interacting with the dead will...
Free to Choose A or B
...with us and turns them into an entertainment product meant to make Facebook money. Facebook's excuse for filtering our feed is that users can't handle the unfiltered flow of all...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Graphic Interface
...idea of “Can you entertain people and feed them ideas at the same time?” Mcluhan. Robert Anton Wilson, in terms of recognizing that you’re in various reality tunnels. Harvey Pekar,...