Full Brightness
...others are less structured than our own. It must come as a relief to users of Sleep Cycle when the app sees them at their most secret, its feed passing...
Epistemology Kills
...on the topic Marías is exhausting. We want to know. This wanting to know isn’t curiosity, exactly, but a slower-burning interest; we can feed it as fuel to our patience....
Homeward Bound
...still had to feed and house myself. To be processed through the carceral system is to be simultaneously exposed to the full power of American institutions and the terrifying reality...
Not this. More that!
...“I am satisfied.” It is how we process an experience that feeds us. Experiences that feed us can satisfy us. Satisfaction names an evaluative act: not simply “it feels good,”...
Drama for Cannibals
...premised on the idea that “human beings are inherently good, and that although convicted criminals have committed heinous crimes against other human beings, this inherent goodness still lives deep within...
Sunday Reading
...and easy to manipulate" "The TSA's Instagram feed shows the artistic side of confiscated material" ""cyber" has, in a way, returned to its dark science-fiction roots" "What the NSA needs...
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...
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...
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....
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...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 2)
...to meet their requirements as well as those of taste. A banquet, a luncheon, a camping supper, a 'club feed,' are only incidentally nourishing. It is the social element and...
An Infantile Disorder
...They take refuge in the home because “the household is the only place they feel like they belong.” But it’s also where someone will feed them. (It’s not uncommon for...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty
...The maqlouba isn't ready yet and though my stomach is growling, I feed on dialogue instead. I talk at length to a friend's wife about the Muslim ban, and why...
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
Sunday Reading
...Love Letter to The Moth This Twitter feed Things to do in Brooklyn this weekend Me: what a honeybee looks like as it loses its stinger "The cargo cult of...
The Potato System
...on potatoes being carried to feed passengers on clipper ships sailing from America to Ireland. "Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially...