♫ Roxane ♫
...attorney or the magical negro—roles relegated to the background and completely lacking in authenticity, depth, or complexity.” Viola Davis calls these roles, “the fried-chicken special of the day” that “hold...
Arguing the Web (3): Post-Text
...passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.” Gibson’s wording is a bit extreme. What...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...will not move no friends not one bit A dissolve makes clear that many hours have passed, twilight has fallen. In that time passed they must have come to an...
I’m So Into Avoiding You
An email exchange between Grace Lavery and Charlie Markbreiter
Sunday Reading!
...couldalso have a headache???), allow me to say this: HOOOOOO MY GOD FUCK US ALL BECAUSE THIS MOVIE GOT BIT BY A RADIOACTIVE GARBAGE AND IT IS A FUCKING MONSTERPIECE...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...rather than its metaphysical efficacy: as literature (the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Paulo Coelho) or as jewelry (talismanic motifs have recently come into vogue). Mersedeh, I sensed,...
Predictive analytics and information camouflage
...individual basis is waiting in the wings. Duhigg notes the efforts Target must make not to "spook" customers with obvious behavioral-based targeting. Since the company wanted to target pregnant women...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.13.12
...vaguely "empowering" but that, in truth, is anything but—and that caters more to a male fantasy of female power than women's actual fantasies of their own power. Wee bit of...
Permanent Display
...the cloth. That was an integral part of my identity. The hair in my face was a bit shamanic. In fact it added more constraints. I saw poorly and I...
Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
...contra-Internet because they reveal that social movements no longer necessarily see the Internet as a political horizon--it is, rather, about finding something else. This is where the commons comes in...
Artistic autonomy and subsumption
...means of self-abnegation, the alibi of using social media to make human capital is more effective. It better disguises the compulsion as productive, efficient. It masks the experience of this...
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
...But to say that the “market” exerts this malign influence of emotional alienation is a bit of a dodge. What Hochschild ends up exploring in The Outsourced Self is how...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
Noshing with Nomads
...in terms of unusually stressful events. I feel this fact palpably. Relieving my stress a bit is the fact that I’m headed for a boskier part of New England than...
Reality Fiction
...I feel like there's a bit of a difference, and I can't quite express it in interviews. Or even really remember, because now that it's over, it's like trying to...