Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
Search Terms
...I would draw: A huge part of Americanah is set in Nigeria, for example, while Behold the Dreamers is completely set in the US. Like Sefi Atta’s A Bit of...
Sunday Reading
...Save The Dismantling of Higher Education Behind New York's Library Network Feed my Feed: Radical Publishing in Facebook Groups Fast Food Workers Win Their Fight for $15 American Labor Unions...
Graphic Interface
...changes us. Internet is a media environment. Somehow our media environment, combined with our economic environment, can really amplify one another’s effects in dangerous ways. Way back in the mid-1990s...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...desired rests on tracked behavioral data. The effect is that of “autocannibalism,” a term coined by new-media pundit Rob Horning which describes users’ act of consuming their feed. Autocannibalism, he...
The Uses of Orphans
...how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house, when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for? What he meant to do with it,...
A Taste of Cesium
...blamed this on the ostriches’ eating habits; it was “likely from consumption of soil or plants within or outside the enclosure, rather than the clean feed administered.” Ostrich appetites are...
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
...Darfur. It is a place without history and without politics; simply a site where perpetrators clearly identifiable as ‘Arabs’ confront victims clearly identifiable as ‘Africans’. 6. Teju Cole’s twitter feed,...
Circle of Presence
...New York Times, “The Flight From Conversation.” Rarely has my feed spoken with such strident uniformity. Turkle had clearly struck a nerve. Critics noted that Turkle presented a false dichotomy;...
The Slow Politics of Occupied Filmmaking
...we hang on the feed, attempting to catch a glimpse of the "real" action, the money shot of tear gas canisters exploding or the baton falling. We have to, because...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.18.13
...Is Just Awful"—before I saw the portrait in question, and was all, "Aw, c'mon, it can't be THAT bad," and then I clicked through my feed to see the picture,...
Free to Choose A or B
...involved in the choice without realizing it. Did Facebook's peppering your feed with too much happiness make you incredibly depressed? Who cares? Facebook got the information it sought from your...
Bug Out
...and wiretaps feed back into a general surveillance culture, one that is defined by the assumption that not only are we being watched, but we are watching and spying on...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Death Stares
...catches glimpses of digital ghosts, as dead friends’ accounts flicker past in the News Feed. As users of social media age, it is inevitable that interacting with the dead will...