Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons
I Want to Believe
...agree.” Nick and I learned that the global political order is coordinated by a tiny cabal whose tentacles extend to every aspect of society — political power, the production of...
Black Liberation Theory: Insurgent Philosophy & the Black Radical Legacy @ Brecht Forum
...Fugitive ‘being’ 6-W.E.B. DuBois, Double Consciousness & ‘problematic’ Subjectivity 7-Ida B. Wells, Lynching & the Normative Gaze of Established Power 8-Richard Wright & Existential Outlaw Subjectivity 9-Malcom X & Emancipatory...
Wizards of Like
...premise that makes News Feed work as it is supposed to, as an ad conduit. The algorithm is there to make the News Feed into commercial broadcast television and to...
Masstige and Bargain Beauty
...The price may be right, but what else drives your beauty buys? I’ve been thinking about high-end beauty products as inconspicuous consumption, and what that means for displays...
Social Media, Social Factory
...to produce cool. The online self thereby seems an opening rather than a precluding of possibilities. Having our communicative “virtuosity” exploited seems like authentication of the self’s social value. Commercial...
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...you’re talking to. It describes itself as a "publishing platform" rather than a streaming platform: you go to an artist's page, click on one of their albums, and buy it...
Judging Books by Their Covers
...the book, even though the $9.99 price tag was more than reasonable. For the last few years I have been a big fan of the Penguin Books Great Ideas series....
Devils in Red Dress
...because they do not put [women] in an advantageous position on the marriage market.” The online dictionary of Xinhua, the state news agency, notes that leftover word here, sheng, is...
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...instead. 4. THAT I never expected those I moved against to come into power. 5. THAT both bribery and threats are effective tools to buy a witness. 6. THAT if...
Your Friends and Neighbors
...her job at a Christian highschool after the photos went online. G., or someone purporting to be her, responded, swearing to sue. But it didn’t work out that way. G....
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...how online platforms resolve the tension between capitalism (which is about making us buy mass produced goods) and consumerism (which is about us making ourselves with those goods or with...
Power Loss
...a personalized list of “solutions” that have been tested and approved by NOAH experts. Through a partnership with Zeb Gear, everything NOAH recommends is available to buy online. In addition...
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...ignoring each other as they engage with their iPhones; the compulsive sharers on social networks who leave no private experience unmediated and recapitulated online; our own restless oscillation between email...
Personal Ads
...it's most prevalent in our online lives as 21st century prosumers, there's a man who has literally sold his face as advertising space to feed his children. But there's something...