Taming the Inexplicable
...story fully, it suggests the island is one big VR experience commissioned by a federation of different countries to increase worker creativity and efficiency. A hidden audio log from this...
Built to Last
...economy and they do have a slight sense of loose change within the economy, possibly, that they might well have a bit more money to spread around, and they might...
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...People be released in the same world where, as its protagonist Sam puts it, “Big Momma’s House 3 exists.” And it might seem a bit hyperbolic, but I’ll write it...
Revenge of the Thanatoids
...already read it before, all of it. Or to put it a bit less crudely, it’s difficult to imagine this book’s circulating outside one or two of the subcultures that...
Powers of the Bottom
...Could you talk a bit more specifically about the relationship between your text-based work and filmmaking practice, particularly with regards to the filmmakers you mention? I am quite drawn to...
Play Fair, Run Fast, and Smile for the Camera
...its spectators that for a few hours, they leave their houses, sharpen their concentration, and put in a little bit of effort too. Randolph Bourne, speaking of the Anglo-Saxon “sporting...
London, Underground
...survived. Londoners knuckle down. We don’t grumble. We get on with things. We keep calm - as that resurrected bit of defunct military propaganda now plastering tote bags, tourist tat...
A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
...time, facing scenarios every bit as complex as their white counterparts. The end of some long-running white sitcoms like Seinfeld made way for new post-Friends millennium favorites such as How...
Occupy A Bank
...the internet in mind. McKenzie Wark has written about the effective occupation of internet territory and the media. The occupation is building bit by bit, spreading to cities from Boston...
Turn Down for What?
...In imagining a homogenized future labor force, accelerationism ignores how capital opportunistically sustains difference to survive Communists are not supposed to like capitalism. If there’s one thing everyone knows...
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn’t even native! It was...
Just the Facts
...the scientific objectivity of the technocrat might finally resolve political disagreement or at least convey some bit of truth to those reasonable enough to listen. But stubborn ideological opponents can...
Interview: Leah Smith, Public Policy Ph.D. Student, Lubbock, TX
...of confidence to it. Dressing well has been huge in my life. The comments and the stares could have been really easy for me to internalize if I weren’t careful....
Bend It Like Benglis
...editors’ personal sensibilities but also of the larger (and conveniently undefined) “aims of [the women’s] movement.” Another grievance: As art writers and editors, these five felt professionally compromised by their...
No Contest
...version of those sports. That is a horribly boring possible future and a one that violates the sports fan’s bargain. The fans bankroll the enterprise, every bit of it, and...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...wash my hair about once a week and it doesn't get nearly as greasy as it did before I did the extended no-shampoo bit. So even though I'm happily washing...