RENT STRIKE 2020
A RESOURCE LIST
The Noonday Shadow
...rupture, a dislocated effect rupture beyond the correct scale. And this is the comedic space of slapstick as a mode: not a series of gags which require a threadbare narrative...
Let Us Eat Cake
...mugs, and branded flip-flops: http://vimeo.com/53530934 I couldn’t imagine a more perfect encapsulation of this university’s lack of vision. Let us get rid of all that tedious business with stuffy old...
Palestine is Free (If You Want It)
The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.
Wizards of Like
...premise that makes News Feed work as it is supposed to, as an ad conduit. The algorithm is there to make the News Feed into commercial broadcast television and to...
"Organic stories"
...what really matters to Facebook — that you feed it likes and comments and so on. It's going to rig your feed to extort the most interaction (a.k.a. free immaterial...
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
...endearment. The Paris Opera Ballet commissioned a documentary about Doisneau from Bel, a "low-rank" dancer a week away from retiring after a 20-year career. The evening of her last performance...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)
...as he strove to look at them with ease and indifference, a faint stain of personal shame and commiseration rose to his own face. Angry with himself he tried to...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...manipulate us into doing what needs to be done, to tell lies so persuasively that we mistake them for truth, and in that way, they can actually come true. When...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...cinema could do no better. In temporary lieu of that, below are a couple of the films he dragged into the light and insisted be seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-pHcC_M3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-WQZx2oJo http://www.veoh.com/watch/v14074458aY356Cd4 Lastly,...
Joe Cool
...awarded with publicity from the Aldi feed. The consumer endorses the brand, and in turn the brand validates the consumer. The opportunities for this quasi-reciprocal participation in brands is presumed...
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...Iranian sanctions proponents, take note. [Matias Spektor, World Politics Review] Nine years ago, as chief nuclear negotiator, [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani compared the controversy around Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology...
Feedbags
...on Twitter and had them on a list. You can also bounce people from your feed without unfriending them, a move akin to "muting" in TweetDeck. In the company's announcement...
Subscription Drive
...world why you subscribe to TNI, send your words, pictures, video, whatever to [email protected] and you could find yourself featured on TNI. Help us reach our goal by December 20th...
The overload
...This New York article by Casey Johnston about the death of the chronological feed colors within the lines of these sorts of pieces: It takes for granted that...