Boom and Rust
...and mercury sticks around. “The Gold Rush is still poisoning the Golden State,” she writes. Forests were clear-cut to feed gold smelters. Bears and wolves were driven out by the...
Fires of Resistance
...call “discursive ammunition” for our current struggles, words to feed the fire. With an eye to life beyond colonial-capitalist enclosures and relations, Red Skin White Masks unmasks the present, in...
Death and Life in Great American Cities
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
Spotivangelism
...generalized other,” but I still feel like a creepy stalker every time I click on his (or anyone else’s) activity in my feed; social discovery sans dialogue remains deeply disconcerting....
Oculus Birth
...experience." Figure 5: The live feed. Figure 6: The mother experiences the birth of her child from the child's perspective. Figure 7: Crowning. Figure 9: "Happy Birthday." Figure 10: The...
The Networked Assembly Line
...of their business model. For example, Facebook uses machine learning to continually adjust what you see in your news feed by using your past activity to make a prediction about...
Sunday Reading
...making feminist points Maasai women on Mindy Bugdor's warrior princess online cult of the angry man why was a major art survey 91% male? don't feed the trolls AKA silence...
The New Inquiry Vol. 48: Appetites
...eating disorder of a different kind: They have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process...
Yids
...The year is 1909 and in the teeming dirt streets of New York’s Lower East Side, twin sisters Esther and Fanya Feinberg run errands for their mother, feed fish heads...
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Nairobi in the Age of the World Target
...I speak, but neither was Westgate a space I ever felt comfortable in, probably because of its calculated efforts to reassure a clientele that looked and spent like me. Like...
Die progressive Paralyse
...resemblences. Conclusion: ? While its arrangement was undoubtably an emanation of pre-existing texts, as, as it would be shown later, were these texts themselves combo effects of precursory texts which...
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
Reform School
...Capitalists will constantly seek to reshape schooling because their labor supply can always be more efficient BY the time most public commentators are old enough to publish a book,...
Biopolitical Exclusion Starts with a Hug
...money to feed yourself. Hence a return to housing and welfare programs as structural interventions that would assist a hugging program would seem essential first steps—but no, hugging is simply...
Hollywood's Drug War
...-- a murderer -- is one of the good guys. We watch the formerly flush assassin try to feed his family on beans and salsa because the Salvadoran justice system...