The End of Plastic
...really buys us. DC: That's a bit of an open question, but probably a decent amount. But really, this is an opportunity to think about what should be made of...
0D30
...bit like putting a single good guy Asian-American in the new Red Dawn to demonstrate that the movie isn’t racist: it’s a completely transparent gambit, but it also works. If...
Hackers Gonna Hack
...Microsoft about two years ago and the program was only launched this year… I think it was interesting to them that a complex organization with a lot of moving parts...
Desiring Machines
...year. Its images, videos, and quotes were summarily collected, attributed, and uploaded with little by way of commentary. Drones, mapping, mirror worlds, machine vision, surveillance infrastructure, conspicuous augmentation, pixelation, fetishizing...
Mansfield Park is melting in the dark
...he is a bit obtuse about the related class issues.) There is this weird contempt for the whole idea of making a public show of your attention grants; any time...
Walter White Supremacy
...Breaking Bad so sparingly depicts. When we do see White's ultimate customers, they're zombies: all scabs and eroded teeth. We're not talking about impulse buyers or comparison shoppers here; it's...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...Our advice columnist Zahira Kelly specializes in the jolt of recognition that comes from rearranging or inverting mainstream hierarchies. In this month’s column, she dissects the costs of online...
Precarious Verse
...place, achieving in the execution uncommon complexity and richness. Poetic effect rests on defamiliarization, although not necessarily as a preliminary to alienation but to its overcoming. Just as the speaker...
A Sentimental Education
...Poet, essayist, translator, activist — Russian writer Kirill Medvedev has worn and taken off many hats While many things about present day Russia might seem still a bit Soviet,...
Anger Management
...value beyond this doesn’t exist, clear and simple, it’s the only value that exists. Which is why…I don’t understand how it could have occurred to you to come to this...
Paranoia lost
...(sometimes laundered as "sharing" and "tolerance"), more subsumption of everyday life by social media. It's a bit like how the internalization of cool into the fashion business means that nothing...
Love Bites
...two, and even three, hours in the chair." "Caries of the teeth is unusually common among the insane," observes Theodore H. Kellogg in A Text-Book on Mental Diseases (1897), "and...
Managing Hearts with Kim and Flo
...periods of waiting. They emphasize action, reflexes, decision-making, and efficiency. Diner Dash and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood games fill their screens completely, demanding their players’ full attention. Time management games require...
Don't Stop Beliebing
...split is absolutely there in the pop avatars themselves. Bieber, effectively commanding an army of the most technologically advanced tweens in human history, sings “I will never say never/ I...
Chubz: the Demonization of my Working Arse
...now, to a better place; blood is returning to his face, and his stoned eyes flicker with comprehension. I bite my lip, I love the sleaze. He smiles at me,...
The Risks of Overreporting
...the real thing, and those gel trays are repulsive.) When we overreport—or overread reports—of beauty work that crosses the line, we nudge ourselves just a little bit closer to that...