Over Easy
...future familial happiness. As a commodity, the ovum comes to carry an affective significance that few others do. The banner above the online profile of donor #60395 has pictures of...
The Resentment Machine
...most taken with the internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s spent a considerable amount of their time online talking about what it meant that they were online. In...
Objects of Derision
...slippage — one made all the worse through male and female cops wearing the same uniform, in an autoeroticism of the generic — will be shut down by a giggle...
The Contagious Assembly
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 3)
...just fog-morning fog-noon & fog-night pouring out of veins & frames But the screen moves, zooming out to show more. There is a border to the tundra it is white...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 3)
...just fog-morning fog-noon & fog-night pouring out of veins & frames But the screen moves, zooming out to show more. There is a border to the tundra. It is white...
Birds of a Ledger
...city bridges, active farms, trailer homes, parking lots, barbed wire, and lakeside McMansions. Even shots of hawks soaring against a generic blue sky are interrupted by jet contrails. If not...
"Organic stories"
...there could be nothing uniquely likeable about any given "story." Only if all stories are generic can liking one story warrant getting served "more of it." To Facebook. any shared...
Precarious Verse
..."to speak/to think are generic habits of the human animal, the opposite of any sort of specialization." These generic habits of the human animal delineate the field of value creation,...
Public Spaces
...of a diptych. Bewersdorf is no longer online. If he is, he has cloaked himself in total anonymity. He removed his texts and images from his old portfolio site—as though...
None of This Is Written By Me
...I do not have tied in my cloth the price of your stewardship. “Kutsiami,” means “death-translator,” and When someone like Kofi Awoonor passes on, especially in the way that he...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
On Privatization and Brutalizing Campuses
...currently close to $22,000 -- to enroll in online classes, even though, as Wendy Brown has observed, comparable online programs typically anticipate a drop-out rate of up to 70%. But...
The Fog of More
...anything, really — online is equivalent to full public disclosure. So while even the CIA has a transparency page now (!), it’s not exactly throwing sunlight on what’s happening at...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Natural's Not In It
...shampoo; others complain about the “unnaturalness” of antibiotics, hormonal birth control, or monogamy. Judging from various Paleo forums online, homeschooling is fairly popular, as are hairy men, eating with one’s...