Alienated Nerds
NFTs as gentrified fandom and the destruction of cultural autonomy in the digital age
The Wintourian Candidate
...in the bottom-right corner of my notebook page. The date at the top is November 14, 2012. “NOT VOGUE” is printed carefully at center. The rest of my notes are...
Digital Dark Spaces
...no longer exists. But there is perhaps too strict a delineation in Fox's descriptions of the online world (cyberspace) and IRL (meatspace), not least when it comes to risk. The...
Why These Tweets Are Called My Back
...online spaces, show up to and engage in person with a movement that has ignored all our best efforts at talking back to it. We are called upon to physically...
Consent: It’s Not Sexy
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir
In this exclusive excerpt from their new book Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas contextualize the twin-snake history of Israel and India and how the occupation of Palestine informs the occupation of Kashmir.
Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12
...Nobody is reporting on Robert Pattinson's eating habits, are they? "Looking good is often balanced by feeling bad": Jane Hu gives the best piece on the complexities of the Cat...
Own to Rent
...tested and refined. With the rise of massively multiplayer online games, the presence of an Internet connection becomes the point. You need to be connected in order to play with...
Leak, Memory
...part of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, for example, gathers testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, and makes them widely available online. There is...
You Deserve It, Sweetie
...making money seem benevolent and unconditional, sweetie. In order to believe that you deserve the glut of resources and love that comes with being a respectable member of the middle...
Stalker/Zona
...a return to Barthes’ notion of the writerly text, as outlined in S/Z. Barthes’ step-by-step commentary moves through the sequences of Balzac’s Sarrasine in order ‘to demonstrate the plural meanings...
Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
Plantation Neoliberalism
...his text with a surprising regularity, casting the ontological order he describes under the shadowy presence of slavery’s past. This symptomatic eruption begins on the very title page of the...
Nightmares of 1965
...in destructive ways—with regards to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and gender—that comes from our subconscious fear of the consequences of being marked as different that the New Order inculcated...
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 3
...obvy means Baruch could not fathom a) the nature of barbarism (which, being ontologically dark to the accusing social order, can’t be worst or best, just more or less babbling),...
Disgorge the Cash
...wasting its money on this stupid tablet thing, he said, the company should “hand it back to its rightful owners. … The money belongs to stockholders: Give. Indeed Jobs should...