Graphic Interface
...changes us. Internet is a media environment. Somehow our media environment, combined with our economic environment, can really amplify one another’s effects in dangerous ways. Way back in the mid-1990s...
Death Stares
...catches glimpses of digital ghosts, as dead friends’ accounts flicker past in the News Feed. As users of social media age, it is inevitable that interacting with the dead will...
Chestnut Economics
...the square before chopping it up and feeding the bits to birds. The Cambro-Norman soldier Robert Fitz-Stephens complained that the English peasant gives his chestnuts to "our swine in England...
Licensed to Ill
...feed a flu and starve a cold, the saying goes. I've never been one to insist on such distinctions. When I get sick, I feed. Nothing makes my appetite go...
Mapping the Sneakernet
...is never neutral.” Between those who’ve never touched a computer and those who get a feed of data directly into their Google Glass sits a vast array of modes and...
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;...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...on her research and paid close attention to the feeding schedule, diet, and growth of her jellies. Many of her published findings in the Irish Naturalist surprised the biology community,...
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...machine is the dream of each contemporary state. To feed it the children of the world is the privilege of empire. The formal phase of the War on Terror died...
Escape From Minus World
...and feed myself because everyone I meet accepts my plastic credit card as easily as they would some ink-stained cloth. There is a distinction between the two objects for me,...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...beauty and style editor at xoJane.com. I'm pleased to hear this because I'm a big fan of Gala's, but I've had my problems with xoJane, specifically what looked like exploitation...
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Personal Ads
...“Bound 2” on Ellen DeGeneres's daytime talk show reminds us all, once again, that he's a genius. For the first few days, when it was exclusively streaming on ellentv.com, that...
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Digressions of an Opium-Eater
...is a book about the poorest of the poor prostituting themselves to feed an addiction that is slowly destroying them, and yet it is suffused with joy and vitality. Here,...
Dr. Maria Montessori, Feminist
...time, such children were lumped together under terms such as idiots, imbeciles, delinquents, or degenerates, and they were essentially abandoned by society. Instead, Montessori urged her compatriots , “Our efforts...