Beauty Blogosphere 3.16.12
...about his hair in prison? "According the Federal Bureau of Prisons commissary list, Blago's choice of hair products will be limited to a choice of shampoo—Pert, Suave, V05 or Head...
The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...my RSS feed. And then, I shrugged. Apathy doesn’t seem like the greatest reason to tune out of something that, intellectually and politically speaking, enrages me—or at least should...
David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words
...pig-feed because you went to school with the distributor – your economic activities will be simply a means of raising your status among your peers and community, or of marking...
Looney Tunes
...metrics: I don't feed anyone to keep them there, I want them to always feel free to leave if they don't like it and go to a place where they...
Late Night Is All We Have
A diary from two days in Dallas
Addicted to Failure
...plant vast fields of wheat, I can grow it more efficiently than if I diversify. Then I can feed more people. This logic ignores the complex, circular networks of causality...
Death by Immortality
...attached to fertile gardens that will create and feed communities. How can I not mourn such a loss? It feels silly and self-indulgent to claim that my metaphors have been...
Sunday Reading
...4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools North Korea: Did Kim Jong Un Feed His Uncle to the Dogs? Maps and Monsters Cultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates...
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
Frenemies
...and technological links between segregation, surveillance, and the construction of internet worlds. A feed is not so different from a gated community, operating under the rules of homophily and assuming...
Go, Tootsie, Go
...But when I started to look through my blog feed for the past few days and saw that I was on the tail end of many, many shares, I had...
The People's Kitchen
...Does the modern workplace cafeteria owe its existence one 19th-century activist's effort to feed the laboring multitudes? Illustrations from Le Livre de Cuisine (1867) Though the phonograph and the...
Hollow Inside
..."creative" opportunity for consumers to feed into the customization of goods, which could be relied upon to confer ersatz uniqueness on the consumer. Deleuze's essay about the control society gives...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of December 8, 2019)
...food, cattle feed I’m always taking suggestions for food-related articles, projects, thought experiments to feature. Send them to @AusterityKitchn, and let me know how you would like to be credited....
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
...are being enrolled. Every form of power has its vulnerabilities, and the specific weakness of what I call “infopower” is shutting off the data feed that supplies the algorithm. Snowden...