Heroine: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
...emotions—anger, aggression, lust, the joy of physical exertion—that feed all freedom movements, and it is no accident that that women musicians have been denied access to this power.” Male fans...
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...
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,...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
...Piggin' out. New law empowers Maine schools to feed uneaten school-lunch fare to farm hogs Fast-food fulfillment centers? Familiar chains have begun opening "ghost kitchens" dedicated exclusively to deliveries ordered...
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...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
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...
The Things We Do
...and feed her. Then, with the boy properly swathed in backcloth, she carried him home and presented him to Luzze. Oh, the celebrations. The jubilation. They went on for weeks...
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...
Army Realness from NATO to NBC
...are no stunt doubles. This is real.' Then he punctuates that promise: 'Real ammunition. Real explosives. Real danger.' Skier Picabo Street was quoted on the show's Twitter feed: 'I rode...
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,...
Information inundation and social deskilling
...in favor of efficiency, which is typically a matter of decreasing the necessity for human interaction in accomplishing specific tasks. The computer instituted an involuntary speed-up on workers by dematerializing...
Social Media, Social Factory
...everyday in the physical world. But in return, it wants you think of yourself only in terms of what you can share on the site, what can feed its databases....
Together We Are None
...also able to stay behind and keep watching through a video feed. There’s a poetic sort of stress about where to go for the authentic experience. Early on, I was...
Kenya’s Three Tribes
...for twenty shillings at a time, so they can feed their families for one more day. Philo Ikonya, president of PEN Kenya, and other activists stands outside Kenya's Parliament arms...
The Collection and the Cloud
...Mellon University’s Silicon Valley branch campus in which he spoke of a coming “digital dark age.” This sound bite was subsequently picked up by the BBC and made the rounds...