RENT STRIKE 2020
A RESOURCE LIST
The Noonday Shadow
...involve over-adulteration (ruining a commodity by adding a bit too much of the chemicals already added to adulterate that commodity, thereby revealing it as already toxic and unusable), of following...
Wizards of Like
...the News Feed into commercial broadcast television and to guarantee a suitably passive audience for it. Like TV has long done, they're just giving the people what they want....
"Organic stories"
...what really matters to Facebook — that you feed it likes and comments and so on. It's going to rig your feed to extort the most interaction (a.k.a. free immaterial...
Let Us Eat Cake
...that “Strength Through Vagueness” article observes, the eleven person team that spent three years designing that monstrosity were originally asked “to come up with a piece of visual collateral that...
Palestine is Free (If You Want It)
The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.
Ghosts
To tell the stories of a blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia provoked by the Disney Channel is to draw energy from a ghosting of severed connections, an otherwise movement of unnamed but present intimacies
Joe Cool
...awarded with publicity from the Aldi feed. The consumer endorses the brand, and in turn the brand validates the consumer. The opportunities for this quasi-reciprocal participation in brands is presumed...
Old Bones
...objects. Yeah, that’s where the title comes from. It’s actually a quote from Patricia Nelson Limerick, an American historian who called Western history "an array of efforts to wrap the...
We Call It a Dismantling Process
Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike
Feedbags
...on Twitter and had them on a list. You can also bounce people from your feed without unfriending them, a move akin to "muting" in TweetDeck. In the company's announcement...
A Snowpiercer Thinkpiece, Not to Be Taken Too Seriously, But For Very Serious Reasons
...the tail-section, we are told, Gilliam and others cut off their own limbs to feed the others—a story I’m tempted to regard as more of a A primal scene, in...
Things to Come
...years. I don’t know if people are aware, but there’s a bit of a controversy going on right now in the science fiction and especially fantasy community, because the World...
Some Kind of Exile
...and no. Yes, when I was younger, but now, much less. To the extent that every character comes from the artist themselves, you create a bit of yourself in everything...
Lost in the Supermarket
...an unspoken thread of dystopia: They have unlearned how to feed themselves. Narrator A, her unstable roommate B, and A’s boyfriend C are all young adults who spend the novel...
The overload
...that implements an algorithmically curated feed reinforces for users that they shouldn’t be expected to deliberate over any desires or guide their own information-search processes. Such platforms teach users helplessness....