Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
Looney Tunes
...metrics: I don't feed anyone to keep them there, I want them to always feel free to leave if they don't like it and go to a place where they...
You are totally unreliable Twitter
...the personal power to regulate (and thus, are semi-private). We often expect to have control over what information enters our feed, and then it turns out that we don’t (and...
Frenemies
...and technological links between segregation, surveillance, and the construction of internet worlds. A feed is not so different from a gated community, operating under the rules of homophily and assuming...
Who's That Girl?
...Hello Giggles, and a Twitter feed set to constant quirky-hiccup mode—works as a convenient storefront for broadcasting a logo of her own. Despite the fact that Deschanel has said she...
Athletic Aesthetics
...and allow information to passively wash over you through your feed, you ultimately arrive at the same place: recognizing patterns amid flow rather than shutting the floodgates. As Marshall McLuhan...
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Dark Knight: Occupy Batman
...they apparently hope will by example (mediated through mass media) be replicated across the country. I think Batman even subpoenas Malcolm Harris’ twitter feed at one point. Via. This vacillation,...
Bad Subjects
...window and feed in simulacral form.) Repeatedly dreamed of rabbits in the months leading up to entering art school, and again each time I leaped into new artwork. It’s easy...
The Honeyed Siphon
...enforcement of diet “may be comparatively easy to effect in private practice [i.e. with those who can afford it]; but in the case of the poor, especially the outpatient poor,...
None of This Is Written By Me
...to feed the survivors? Which will be more numerous as a result? The reason why not, of course, is that we don’t eat human beings. We just don’t. Not ever,...
Get Off
...Axe is so blunt and in your face that an artist was eventually going to have to go up and flirt a little bit with it. Artists don’t have to...
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
...on. And their training sets reveal the historical, geographical, racial, and socio-economic positions of their trainers. Feed an image of Manet’s “Olympia” painting to a CNN trained on the industry-standard...
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...and would never come again. There are no more "attack ships" or "c-beams" on Earth, you see; it is only on the off-world colonies that you could still see things,...
Social media and sensibility
...more efficacious than material luxuries in providing pleasure. The competency to extract affect from texts becomes a core part of the middle-class habitus, a challenge to the aristocratic mode of...
(Pro)Creating Science: The Parenting Metaphor, Gender, and Scientific Memory
...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....