Bad News
...be startling is hard to imagine. On the night of the recent lunar eclipse, when the sky fogged over and the moon disappeared, we watched a news channel’s live feed...
Information inundation and social deskilling
...didn't blame themselves. When I get the sense I am scrambling to keep up with my Google Reader feed or all the links flowing through on Twitter, I get overwhelmed...
Social Media, Social Factory
...everyday in the physical world. But in return, it wants you think of yourself only in terms of what you can share on the site, what can feed its databases....
Kenya’s Three Tribes
...for twenty shillings at a time, so they can feed their families for one more day. Philo Ikonya, president of PEN Kenya, and other activists stands outside Kenya's Parliament arms...
Heroine: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
...emotions—anger, aggression, lust, the joy of physical exertion—that feed all freedom movements, and it is no accident that that women musicians have been denied access to this power.” Male fans...
Sunday Reading
...and easy to manipulate" "The TSA's Instagram feed shows the artistic side of confiscated material" ""cyber" has, in a way, returned to its dark science-fiction roots" "What the NSA needs...
Drama for Cannibals
...premised on the idea that “human beings are inherently good, and that although convicted criminals have committed heinous crimes against other human beings, this inherent goodness still lives deep within...
Wages Versus Progress
...stagnate. It doesn’t say, feed families or obviate want or improve lives and opportunities for wage earners. The idea that fair wages should be a normal part of the calculation...
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Value-seeking surveillance and The Hunger Games
...that everyone is simply supposed to know about. (Mad Men also springs to mind after the past weekend, when my Twitter feed was full of people complaining about Mad Men...
Sowing Scarcity
...enforcing the patent when virtually all available stocks of soybean seeds contained the Roundup Ready genes: “While farmers, like Bowman, may have the right to use commodity seeds as feed,...
An Infantile Disorder
...They take refuge in the home because “the household is the only place they feel like they belong.” But it’s also where someone will feed them. (It’s not uncommon for...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 6 & 7 & 8)
...not fed. Their stomachs unfed feed on the stomach itself until the container becomes the material consumed. This is caused by the order of the world in which we live....
Pryor Restraint
...rust-belt crime drama Blue Collar, Pryor plays an auto-worker caught in capitalism’s ugly grasp. He’s a good-humored man with mouths to feed, bills to pay, and friendships to maintain who...
Propositions for Twenty Unmade Works of Art
...feed on them for several weeks Photograph the new maps 15 Make a work based on the hazards of your job Be specific and unsparing 16 On the night of...
Working With Kids
...despite the nationwide, systemic policy failure to actually support, feed, provide medical care for, and educate them all. Conversations about children have always felt to me like conversations about a...