Lumps of Labor
...or under what conditions — they’re at least creating some value and thereby doing their part to feed the Economy rather than leeching value out of it. Given how much...
The New Inquiry Vol. 48: Appetites
...eating disorder of a different kind: They have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process...
The Networked Assembly Line
...of their business model. For example, Facebook uses machine learning to continually adjust what you see in your news feed by using your past activity to make a prediction about...
Oculus Birth
...experience." Figure 5: The live feed. Figure 6: The mother experiences the birth of her child from the child's perspective. Figure 7: Crowning. Figure 9: "Happy Birthday." Figure 10: The...
Spotivangelism
...generalized other,” but I still feel like a creepy stalker every time I click on his (or anyone else’s) activity in my feed; social discovery sans dialogue remains deeply disconcerting....
Fires of Resistance
...call “discursive ammunition” for our current struggles, words to feed the fire. With an eye to life beyond colonial-capitalist enclosures and relations, Red Skin White Masks unmasks the present, in...
Boom and Rust
...and mercury sticks around. “The Gold Rush is still poisoning the Golden State,” she writes. Forests were clear-cut to feed gold smelters. Bears and wolves were driven out by the...
Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
Bad News
...corporate media’s ideological inertia. Previous works, such as I Feel Your Pain (2011) and The Armory Show Focus Group (2013), engagingly splice together the romantic comedy and the political interview,...
Value-seeking surveillance and The Hunger Games
...that everyone is simply supposed to know about. (Mad Men also springs to mind after the past weekend, when my Twitter feed was full of people complaining about Mad Men...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 14, 2020)
...Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Image: Boston Public Library Aussie government begins airborne food drops to feed wildlife displaced by ongoing fires Celebrity survivalist finds dead...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.31.13
...is. (via Caitlin) Trolled: "Don't feed the trolls" is an oft-heard admonition (one I usually follow myself) 'round the internets—particularly when it comes to trolls who bait women by arguing...
How to Destroy a Community
...of sustained low-level misery. “The trick is to find what the enemy hates the most and feed it to them nonstop. You listen to their discourse and find the core...
Phantom Tollbooths
...artworks as appearing sui generis via their creators, as if from the head of Zeus, rather than acknowledging that those creators invariably build on previous works and feed on creative...
There Will Be Thinkpieces
...live feed news cycle and Facebook safety checks and the sudden ubiquity of the French Tricolore in response to devastation in Paris and the comparative silence on Beirut, Baghdad or...