Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...on her research and paid close attention to the feeding schedule, diet, and growth of her jellies. Many of her published findings in the Irish Naturalist surprised the biology community,...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...one verse and deal with intersections of network culture and urban communities of black and Latino youth, the traditional purview of hip-hop and other genres. One song, "Don't Feed the...
Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs
...viral data with which to feed its own sickness, it chews on itself for days before regurgitating its own guts in a feedback loop of 24-bit RGB rainbows. Nowadays, it’s...
None of This Is Written By Me
...to feed the survivors? Which will be more numerous as a result? The reason why not, of course, is that we don’t eat human beings. We just don’t. Not ever,...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...some dark corner of my house, eating potato chips and refreshing my Tumblr feed in the hope that someone will have “liked” my Photoshopped picture of Kanye West in a...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 4 & 5)
...more than solid feed for those bodies that look as hungry as these do. However if the quantity is ample the quality seems less certain. From this angle the teeth...
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Presumed conspicuous
...to feed every consumption choice into a network, no choice is innocent or separate from the value it might create by circulating within that network. No subjective opinion has any...
Pryor Restraint
...rust-belt crime drama Blue Collar, Pryor plays an auto-worker caught in capitalism’s ugly grasp. He’s a good-humored man with mouths to feed, bills to pay, and friendships to maintain who...
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...audience knows when each joke ends.” The effect is a synthetic montage, with jumps between emotions and characters whose emotional whiplash resembles a social media feed (lesser comics just read...
Looney Tunes
...metrics: I don't feed anyone to keep them there, I want them to always feel free to leave if they don't like it and go to a place where they...
Baby Heists
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
You are totally unreliable Twitter
...the personal power to regulate (and thus, are semi-private). We often expect to have control over what information enters our feed, and then it turns out that we don’t (and...
Who's That Girl?
...Hello Giggles, and a Twitter feed set to constant quirky-hiccup mode—works as a convenient storefront for broadcasting a logo of her own. Despite the fact that Deschanel has said she...
Athletic Aesthetics
...and allow information to passively wash over you through your feed, you ultimately arrive at the same place: recognizing patterns amid flow rather than shutting the floodgates. As Marshall McLuhan...