Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...on her research and paid close attention to the feeding schedule, diet, and growth of her jellies. Many of her published findings in the Irish Naturalist surprised the biology community,...
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...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 4 & 5)
...more than solid feed for those bodies that look as hungry as these do. However if the quantity is ample the quality seems less certain. From this angle the teeth...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.5.13
...swift for me—I've also taken a good look at my blog feed and have realized it could use a renewal. I love being able to direct you to so many...
The General Store of Yore
...molasses, old onions and potatoes, poultry feed, gun oil, rubber boots, calico, dried fish, coffee, and 'kept' eggs." (By "'kept' eggs" Carson means "eggs that should have been shipped off...
Presumed conspicuous
...to feed every consumption choice into a network, no choice is innocent or separate from the value it might create by circulating within that network. No subjective opinion has any...
Pryor Restraint
...rust-belt crime drama Blue Collar, Pryor plays an auto-worker caught in capitalism’s ugly grasp. He’s a good-humored man with mouths to feed, bills to pay, and friendships to maintain who...
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...audience knows when each joke ends.” The effect is a synthetic montage, with jumps between emotions and characters whose emotional whiplash resembles a social media feed (lesser comics just read...
Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs
...viral data with which to feed its own sickness, it chews on itself for days before regurgitating its own guts in a feedback loop of 24-bit RGB rainbows. Nowadays, it’s...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...some dark corner of my house, eating potato chips and refreshing my Tumblr feed in the hope that someone will have “liked” my Photoshopped picture of Kanye West in a...
Bleak House
...if father or son found work, he often couldn't wring enough earnings from that work to feed, clothe and shelter his family. "In some counties," a Select Committee on Labourer's...
Baby Heists
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
No Purchase Necessary
...eternal secret: no purchase necessary. That little begrudging bit of legal fine print on every mail-in rebate and contest was, in fact, the most basic truth of the whole commercial...
Hollow Inside
..."creative" opportunity for consumers to feed into the customization of goods, which could be relied upon to confer ersatz uniqueness on the consumer. Deleuze's essay about the control society gives...
David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words
...pig-feed because you went to school with the distributor – your economic activities will be simply a means of raising your status among your peers and community, or of marking...