Appetites
...have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process of feeding one another has broken the...
Venerated Members
...suggested that there were so many different Holy Prepuces because it could, like the fish and loaves, multiply to feed hungry pilgrims. In the official liturgy, the foreskin performed wonders...
The Collection and the Cloud
...feed the algorithms by response. Our relationship with interfaces is social: we’ve become so familiar with interfaces that we now expect them to behave themselves, in part to set an...
Together We Are None
...also able to stay behind and keep watching through a video feed. There’s a poetic sort of stress about where to go for the authentic experience. Early on, I was...
The Things We Do
...and feed her. Then, with the boy properly swathed in backcloth, she carried him home and presented him to Luzze. Oh, the celebrations. The jubilation. They went on for weeks...
All The Hungry Children
...photograph of a Sudanese girl taken in 1993 by South African photographer Kevin Carter, who committed suicide months after the image was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The child on the...
Fires of Resistance
...call “discursive ammunition” for our current struggles, words to feed the fire. With an eye to life beyond colonial-capitalist enclosures and relations, Red Skin White Masks unmasks the present, in...
Bad Subjects
...window and feed in simulacral form.) Repeatedly dreamed of rabbits in the months leading up to entering art school, and again each time I leaped into new artwork. It’s easy...
Spotivangelism
...generalized other,” but I still feel like a creepy stalker every time I click on his (or anyone else’s) activity in my feed; social discovery sans dialogue remains deeply disconcerting....
Oculus Birth
...experience." Figure 5: The live feed. Figure 6: The mother experiences the birth of her child from the child's perspective. Figure 7: Crowning. Figure 9: "Happy Birthday." Figure 10: The...
The Networked Assembly Line
...of their business model. For example, Facebook uses machine learning to continually adjust what you see in your news feed by using your past activity to make a prediction about...
The New Inquiry Vol. 48: Appetites
...eating disorder of a different kind: They have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process...
The Honeyed Siphon
...For 14 years I have lived a hamfistedly biopolitical life, in which all food is quanta and my blood talks in numbers. The trouble with comparing a poet with...
Lumps of Labor
...or under what conditions — they’re at least creating some value and thereby doing their part to feed the Economy rather than leeching value out of it. Given how much...
Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
Nairobi in the Age of the World Target
...floors. Like an inane mosquito that might also be giving you malaria, Al Shabab’s Twitter feed buzzes in everyone’s ears, taunting, boasting, sounding anything but “ashamed and defeated” as they...