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...
Presumed conspicuous
...to feed every consumption choice into a network, no choice is innocent or separate from the value it might create by circulating within that network. No subjective opinion has any...
Sunday Reading
...type. You feed off the thrill of inference and small, instructor-led discussion." "Every day I see people on the worst of the worst street, San Julian, sweeping up." "A sketchy...
Homeward Bound
...still had to feed and house myself. To be processed through the carceral system is to be simultaneously exposed to the full power of American institutions and the terrifying reality...
Full Brightness
...others are less structured than our own. It must come as a relief to users of Sleep Cycle when the app sees them at their most secret, its feed passing...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 2)
...to meet their requirements as well as those of taste. A banquet, a luncheon, a camping supper, a 'club feed,' are only incidentally nourishing. It is the social element and...
None of This Is Written By Me
...to feed the survivors? Which will be more numerous as a result? The reason why not, of course, is that we don’t eat human beings. We just don’t. Not ever,...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 14, 2020)
...Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Image: Boston Public Library Aussie government begins airborne food drops to feed wildlife displaced by ongoing fires Celebrity survivalist finds dead...
How to Destroy a Community
...of sustained low-level misery. “The trick is to find what the enemy hates the most and feed it to them nonstop. You listen to their discourse and find the core...
Phantom Tollbooths
...artworks as appearing sui generis via their creators, as if from the head of Zeus, rather than acknowledging that those creators invariably build on previous works and feed on creative...
There Will Be Thinkpieces
...live feed news cycle and Facebook safety checks and the sudden ubiquity of the French Tricolore in response to devastation in Paris and the comparative silence on Beirut, Baghdad or...
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...audience knows when each joke ends.” The effect is a synthetic montage, with jumps between emotions and characters whose emotional whiplash resembles a social media feed (lesser comics just read...
Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs
...viral data with which to feed its own sickness, it chews on itself for days before regurgitating its own guts in a feedback loop of 24-bit RGB rainbows. Nowadays, it’s...
Liquid authenticity
...Frédéric Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital helps clarify how two of the fantasies that feed neoliberal ideology — liquidity and authenticity — interrelate. The two concepts represent two...
A Snowpiercer Thinkpiece, Not to Be Taken Too Seriously, But For Very Serious Reasons
...the tail-section, we are told, Gilliam and others cut off their own limbs to feed the others—a story I’m tempted to regard as more of a A primal scene, in...
The General Store of Yore
...molasses, old onions and potatoes, poultry feed, gun oil, rubber boots, calico, dried fish, coffee, and 'kept' eggs." (By "'kept' eggs" Carson means "eggs that should have been shipped off...