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....
Public Spaces
...good reads, weird sites, and sharp jokes. Google Reader, the RSS feed aggregator, used to have a button that users could click to let friends see posts from blogs they...
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
Virus in the System
The radical collective Gay Shame keeps the flame of anticapitalist queer politics burning.
Subscription Drive
...world why you subscribe to TNI, send your words, pictures, video, whatever to [email protected] and you could find yourself featured on TNI. Help us reach our goal by December 20th...
Testing Beyond Control
...Live on Facebook — and He’s Negative.” NBCNews.com. July 14, 2016. The Royal test is the latest instance of a long -- and successful -- line of publicity efforts to...
Narrative of Fragments
...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...
Don't Be a Stranger
...logic as an underground punk club is from a computer lab? Once upon a time this social network did exist, and it was called Makeoutclub.com. Nobody much talks about Makeoutclub.com...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...common but was becoming a national scandal, the inextricable racial element in the practice of lynching has been extricated, exactly as the centrality of slavery in the civil war had...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)
...movement,' 'graffiti lettering adds realism to the disheveled sign,' 'Converse sneakers are a bit too trendy for an idealist'). ? ? ? 12. 'Fashion is the armor to survive the...
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)
...on living at LuxLotus.com. Glamour is the word, pertaining to me, that I hear most often from other people, and, in truth, the word I think of least on...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Solid Personal Achievements
...adds, with just a bit of a wink, “Keyword here is: passionately.” Adichie’s “bigness” becomes a problem in this context. She has always been an ambitious writer, and it has...
Kjerstin Gruys, Ph.D. sociology student, Bay Area
...first time? So I’m scared about that—that would be a little bit sad and scary to go without for a whole year and finally look in the mirror and be...
An Interview with Michel Gondry
...self-produced. It cost a bit, but I could afford it. Then to finish it I needed a producer so we found a production company to help us. Do the formal...
Dream Political Party
The daddy archetypes representing different sexual appeals of the dating-simulator game Dream Daddy are reimagined as “dadsonas” of the political, not parenting, type. In RPG style, you take on the role of an overwhelmed outsider trying to make his way through a party and figure out which ideological hottie to go home with.