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...I would draw: A huge part of Americanah is set in Nigeria, for example, while Behold the Dreamers is completely set in the US. Like Sefi Atta’s A Bit of...
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
All Our Little Lives
...banalities because they don’t know yet that people won’t. Your Twitter feed isn’t complete until you follow a teen, and you aren’t entertaining until you start acting like one....
Free to Choose A or B
...involved in the choice without realizing it. Did Facebook's peppering your feed with too much happiness make you incredibly depressed? Who cares? Facebook got the information it sought from your...
The Virtual Watchers
...including a bar in Australia that kept a 24-hour feed for its customers. However, the most astonishing discovery was a Facebook group that gathered some of the volunteering citizens that...
On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
...to judge from her twitter feed (full of retweeted greetings from people around the world, telling her she’s famous in Argentina, etc). She’s not much of a victim, either, because...
Bug Out
...and wiretaps feed back into a general surveillance culture, one that is defined by the assumption that not only are we being watched, but we are watching and spying on...
Circle of Presence
...New York Times, “The Flight From Conversation.” Rarely has my feed spoken with such strident uniformity. Turkle had clearly struck a nerve. Critics noted that Turkle presented a false dichotomy;...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...an escape from the hermetic feedback loop that Horning describes. A Refusal Instagram Feed by @artpresident #americanartist #thebarnshow2016 #summerfling @johannesvogtnyc A video posted by adriana (@nyc_adriana) on Jul 25, 2016...
Sunday Reading
...Save The Dismantling of Higher Education Behind New York's Library Network Feed my Feed: Radical Publishing in Facebook Groups Fast Food Workers Win Their Fight for $15 American Labor Unions...
The Uses of Orphans
...how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house, when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for? What he meant to do with it,...
A Taste of Cesium
...blamed this on the ostriches’ eating habits; it was “likely from consumption of soil or plants within or outside the enclosure, rather than the clean feed administered.” Ostrich appetites are...
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
...Darfur. It is a place without history and without politics; simply a site where perpetrators clearly identifiable as ‘Arabs’ confront victims clearly identifiable as ‘Africans’. 6. Teju Cole’s twitter feed,...
The Slow Politics of Occupied Filmmaking
...we hang on the feed, attempting to catch a glimpse of the "real" action, the money shot of tear gas canisters exploding or the baton falling. We have to, because...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.18.13
...Is Just Awful"—before I saw the portrait in question, and was all, "Aw, c'mon, it can't be THAT bad," and then I clicked through my feed to see the picture,...
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.