Chestnut Economics
...the square before chopping it up and feeding the bits to birds. The Cambro-Norman soldier Robert Fitz-Stephens complained that the English peasant gives his chestnuts to "our swine in England...
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...
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...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
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...
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,...
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...machine is the dream of each contemporary state. To feed it the children of the world is the privilege of empire. The formal phase of the War on Terror died...
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Escape From Minus World
...and feed myself because everyone I meet accepts my plastic credit card as easily as they would some ink-stained cloth. There is a distinction between the two objects for me,...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...beauty and style editor at xoJane.com. I'm pleased to hear this because I'm a big fan of Gala's, but I've had my problems with xoJane, specifically what looked like exploitation...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Dr. Maria Montessori, Feminist
...time, such children were lumped together under terms such as idiots, imbeciles, delinquents, or degenerates, and they were essentially abandoned by society. Instead, Montessori urged her compatriots , “Our efforts...
Digressions of an Opium-Eater
...is a book about the poorest of the poor prostituting themselves to feed an addiction that is slowly destroying them, and yet it is suffused with joy and vitality. Here,...
Being Damien Hirst
...seem to suggest that you are critical of the huge premium placed on art-objects, and you describe yourself as a non-profit artist. Your site and your Twitter feed are full...
Personal Ads
...“Bound 2” on Ellen DeGeneres's daytime talk show reminds us all, once again, that he's a genius. For the first few days, when it was exclusively streaming on ellentv.com, that...
Old Neighbors, New Battles
Rekindling Indigenous relations against colonial violence