Dating Games
...is also easy for privileged kids to shop at thrift stores or for working-class kids to buy clever designer knockoffs. Focusing on the ease of enacting online falsehoods merely deflects...
The Noonday Shadow
...“slapstick is the generic term for these non-narrative intrusions, while gags are the specific forms of intrusions” (357), the original meaning of the word points in a different direction. After...
The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...to local high school and community college students—and they say they hope to eventually replace 20% of the curriculum with online courses from universities like Harvard and MIT. They explicitly...
RENT STRIKE 2020
A RESOURCE LIST
Don't Be a Stranger
...writers. Even today, I’ve met some of my best friends on Twitter, which is infinitely better at connecting strangers than Facebook. Unlike the almost gothic obsession of Catfish’s online lovers,...
Kenya's Security Act: Notes
...and substituting therefor the term ?ten thousand. Section 8 of the Public Order Act deals with Curfews 8. (1) The Commissioner of Police or a Provincial Commissioner may, if he...
Who Can You Trust?
...world, the Named garment achieves something our social networks cannot. We may never meet the three-dimensional version of our complete online cohort. But Minnie has a name. Order her. She’ll...
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
...Every time some clever white person puts on yellow-face or uses a black name (or any variation thereof) in order to benefit from some real or imagined affirmative action...
Hi Haters!
...inauthentic, no matter how authentic the process may have felt. Online, "becoming oneself" has turned into a crappy job — a compulsory low-paying, low-skill job. Interiority has become a factory;...
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Redefining the Right Wing
...conservatives (though not as many as you might think) oppose. And I also mean something more than a generic opposition to established power, particularly if that power is far away....
Tree Sitting
...way of thinking about and describing how education can occur online in the most optimistic terms. It’s a way of taking a thing as non-specific and formless as “disruption” and...
Single Servings
...A new post-scarcity business model is in order: Like Google and Facebook, a successful online company going forward will need to rely on targeted advertising and on capturing user behavior...
Cookie Cutters
...Many benefit from this relic and its inability to handle today’s complexities. This is best seen when we try to enter into agreements to opt out of online advertising schemes....
Let Us Eat Cake
...online. Anirudh Sri, on the other hand, said he found the whole thing "weird." Though quick to note that the design would have little bearing on his life at Cal,...
Joe Cool
...consumers by being the choice for no-choices, the place where generic brands can feel exclusive. You’ll know without having to be told. You’ll buy without ever wondering if you’ve made...