Security Theater
...belief in the malevolent world can bring, the crisis actor subculture suffers the same kinds of internal drama found in every online community. Ed Chiarini of WellAware1.com is one of...
Love song of J. Lacan
... "I have no wish to rehash the whole thing again, but I will present it for you in a more syncopated way." Lacanian love song: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/09/14-Track-14.mp3|titles=Lacanian Love...
Life and Death in Dioramas
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...online presence. It can make us seem vaguely suspicious, as though we have something to hide. Thus the vaunted network effects that the Web harnesses begin to come at the...
Bail Bloc
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail.
"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"
...labor Instead, she brings back a commodity that is radically defetishized, a commodity that is nothing but the thing that disappears when you fetishize a commodity: the labor of its...
Speak/Now
...nothing is assured. Send your thoughts to [email protected] We see another precarious return to an older theme on Speak Now‘s (appropriately) final track, “Long Live.” On Swift’s first album, “Mary’s...
Already Pretty Giveaway
...Sally will be giving away a signed copy of Already Pretty to a reader of The Beheld chosen at random from all comments on this post (whether at the-beheld.com, The...
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
...means to think more critically about the center, and complicate its claims of moral and political right. David Manning, 'A Tale of Two (or Three) Marches' Unlike 1968, this [2003]...
Kid Stuff
...photo via squareamerica.com If childhood is supposed to be a time for play, why do today’s kids spend so much time working? In the past month, I’ve attended...
Wall, Ground, Air
...wall and compare its securitarian spectacularity with the ones built at the edges of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the last decade. We then address the question of the ground...
Healthy Boundaries
...typical of other online health forums, are by far the most common, appearing consistently from Facebook pages to threads on NetMums.com. However, while much of the discourse generated emphasizes shared...
Data Occupations
...a collection of links to local groups’ Meetup.com pages on the Quantified Self website, no one is keeping track of participation in Quantified Self writ large. Even attendance numbers for...
The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
TNI Rex (4)
...Shopping: Buying Candy on Amazon.com In middle school, my brother used to stop by 7-11 on the way to school, buy candy bars two-for-a-dollar and sell em a buck a...
Vampire architecture
...Low-rent cousin of The Hardware. Where the diurnal undead mill about forever on shag that never quite feels dry, not ever. From the inestimable terriblerealestateagentphotos.com...