Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 11)
...comes closer to its ending, it does not take hours to show her walking through the city. Instead there are shots of different parts of the city or different perspectives...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 1 & 2)
...they do not emanate that life it does not come from somewhere inside them no it blows from somewhere else they happen to be in the way of that blowing...
The Lights Are On but Nobody's Home
...As the number of data sources proliferate, opportunities increase for behavioral management as well as on-the-fly price discrimination. Through the dispersed system of mass monitoring and feedback, behaviors and cultures...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...he can order the recalcitrant black soldier to do what needs to be done. Only southerners, you see, have the necessary knack of command, so as freed slaves are re-cast...
Buying the Future
...there only particular, individual, material things out there, with generic names arising only from social conventions? Or are there ideal Platonic universal entities, which exist separately from individual iterations of...
Lost in the Supermarket
...story βThe Feeling of Power,β Isaac Asimov imagined a future in which everyone has a pocket-sized computer, and humanity pays a great price. Specifically, we forget how to do basic...
Love Worth Fighting For
...of any particular other person. One is simply emotionally competent, in the abstract. Thus online dating preconceives any potential intimacy as generic. But in reality, intimacy reveals itself in unpredictable...
Post-Exotic Novels, NΘ―velles, and Novelists: Part One
...We have come to understand that our idea of the novel was liberated from these generic constraints, which for that matter were rather relative since that label comprises so many...
Death Stares
...replete with snazzy filters. As more people go online, impromptu and unintentional memorials arise and dead peopleβs accounts become virtual shrines and spaces for collective grief. By Facebookβs 10th anniversary...
Resisting The Chilling Effect
...familiar cast of characters in the narrative of online privacy: the schoolteacher fired for her Facebooked drunkenness; the teenager laid off after admitting she was βso totally bored!!!,β the Canadian...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age
...photos, endlessly falsified and therefore perfectible online personas, we are all invited to construct ourselves closer to what we dream of being than what we simply are. Authenticity becomes a...
Sunday Reading
...City Council meeting A plan for a safer Oakland: Critical Resistance Depression and Money, Some Real Talk 16-year-old Temitayo Fagbenle reports on sexual bullying online (audio) Facial weaponization: Fag Face...
The Semiautobiographers
...helps us see, the attempt to order experience neednβt represent an acquiescence to some oppressive authority. It can also be a β perhaps our best β chance at liberation....
"Flowers in the Attic" Is the Best Book Ever* And Here Is Why
...to be seen. The better of the YA set will deal with these in a more complex manner, but at best thereβs ambivalence about whether or not the girl feels...