Sunday Reading
...Mere Physical Masses for Data for Harvesting Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers' DNA Bodies without Skin Scores of scores: How companies are reducing consumers to single...
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
...they are killing and robbing residents,” said former deputy speaker of the National Assembly Farah Maalim...The Somali community occupies the largest area in the country and yet it is treated...
The Sabotage of Time
...Bermejo River; Chaplin vs. Keaton; supply chains; Ballard; cunning and speed. Relevant links are here (reserve a free ticket at the first one if you're coming): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-manual-override-lecture-2-the-sabotage-of-time-tickets-10660867943 https://www.facebook.com/events/1425151034395572/ http://ctm.parsons.edu/manual-override-the-sabotage-of-capital/...
Single Servings
...notes that he “has immersed himself in the details of both Match.com and IAC’s search units, both big cash generators.” Dating sites know that their product typically reveals to users...
Resistance in the Neoliberal City
...rent housing in the United States. But even putting nostalgia aside, it was not always this way. The second coming of dot-com wealth, venture capital, and neoliberal development has eviscerated...
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...include eighteenth-century aesthetic theory/philosophy, poetry, art history, media, and music. Currently Chris teaches for the Department of English and School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. Contact: [email protected]; http://theboundingline.com/....
The Souls of Drone Folk
...in the Iraqis and, in the end, the city was only captured after close combat on the outskirts of Baghdad.” Note the logic of this paragraph: the desired effect was...
The Anti-Family
...encouraging a two-parent model. They make any other option out of the question. Send your thoughts to [email protected] Teen Mom does not go into these developments—they are outside the scope...
The Secret Shopper
...to counter the frowns of the surly stock boy. Witness claims made by mystery-shopper providers, such as this one from Customer Feedback LLC: “96% of dissatisfied customers do not complain...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
...the band skidded to a halt twelve minutes into the set. The singer, Cal, attempted a bit of bravado to counter the booing: “I love it when you talk dirty!”...
Mexican Is Not a Race
Poet Wendy Trevino argues that a radical new Chicanx politics means forging an identity based on shared political struggle, not myths of racial homogeneity--an idea rooted in anarchist struggles along the Texas-Mexican border a century ago
Sunday Reading
...feats, and part of what fascinated me was the ease with which they went in and out of it" long list of good art tumblrs pizza-compass.com Bint Battuta: A veritable...
Police Mortality
...last yawn before its current hibernation. Instead, they’ve developed into a feature film: Police Mortality, by the anonymous guerrilla cinema collective Anti-Banality. Combing through nearly 200 cop-centric films, the group...
Inside Out, Namwali Serpell's "The Sack"
...story’s narrative completion, it un-resolves itself, taking you back to the beginning… only now, you’re inside out, upside down, looking out from looking in. If you turn a sack inside...
Sex in Public
...college boyfriend, and then returned to writing with a popular and sometimes controversial dating column for The New York Post, where she worked until moving to website xoJane.com this fall....