Sunday Reading
...lead is played out" "Together, we can end barfing. Let's hold hands. And then wash them furiously in scalding water." "If there's no water and no feed, you move the...
Northern Exposure
...proverb Codfish covered thousands of acres, enough to feed an army. "A piscatorial paradise!," as Caton himself remarked. But when he sat down to his first meal aboard that Norwegian...
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...my RSS feed. And then, I shrugged. Apathy doesn’t seem like the greatest reason to tune out of something that, intellectually and politically speaking, enrages me—or at least should...
The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
Sowing Scarcity
...enforcing the patent when virtually all available stocks of soybean seeds contained the Roundup Ready genes: “While farmers, like Bowman, may have the right to use commodity seeds as feed,...
Doing it Wrong
...not happen. Which helped feed my fear when faced with my earliest intimate situations which led that first boy to report on my inadequacy to his friends. Which fed my...
The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.
Beauty Blogosphere 3.16.12
...prints really come from? (via Final Fashion) St. Makeup: Cosmetics line founder gives "makeovers" to abandoned religious statues in shuttered churches. I only have eyes for you: Thoroughly freaked out...
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
...cameras for them to be effective. By contrast, the algorithm is invisible as it constructs its composites; it ever runs silently in the background like all that circuitry, voltage, and...
To the Squirrels
...image via In "his" new novel, Glenn Beck tell us one we've heard before “Praise the squirrels. Praise those who feed the squirrels.” So chants the ecofascist dictatorship...
The Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.
The Esoteric Whodunit
...on the subject and who parrot theoretical views with no ability to assess their validity — in other words, many of the people who appear on your Facebook feed whenever...
Signs of ephemerality
...other users exhibiting similar behavior patterns) but also make it plain that all the archived information about us feed directly into our efforts to capitalize on our sociality—to turn our...
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...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Four
...I use it up until it evaporates, tucking it away for another month, another year, where I'll feed voraciously on it again. Spontaneously, I look up the etymology of the...
The Scapegoating Machine
...to create scapegoating machines. And that, Read’s account implies, is what we’ve ended up with. Social media intensify the global regime of universalized competition and feed its tendency toward rivalry...