The Algorithm and the Watchtower
...defined by a genre of social media in which we have come to recognize ourselves in our online "profiles." And the next stage of this obsession may well become, as...
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...or burned in order to keep the global price of wheat high. The minutely detailed and explanatory emphasis on the means of this process and the sudden evacuation of their...
To Sit on a Throne of Teeth, Graced With a Crown of Teeth
...have been plenty. Instead, the film, and we with it, groans beneath the weight. Exploitation films are, taken generally, those that fully enact generic modes, premises, or single concerns (cannibalism,...
Subscription Drive
...Inquiry Magazine subscribers receive content first, in thematic illustrated digital editions, readable on desktop and portable tablets. Thanks to our early subscribers, we've been able to keep TNI online as...
The Paper Chase
...Online cryptocurrencies are all the rage, but other alternate money systems can do more than help you hide The recent speculative euphoria on Bitcoin has been accompanied by a...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...American Artist, A Refusal (2015), Online performance, Ongoing In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the...
No Purchase Necessary
...online purchasing habits and then ex post facto generates fake clicks on ads that could have but in fact didn’t lead the consumer to their point of conversion. Experts estimate...
Ambitious Conditions: Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go"
...something: she knew that the character she sees on the page would not have acted the way she does. But where does such confidence come from? When do we ever...
Baby Heists
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
Massively Open Online Police State
...kind of war without end world destabilization that today's patriotic consumers demand. We have to do better. Massive online surveillance is not new. As techno-utopian Evgeny Morozov has demonstrated, governments...
Surplus Rebellions
...“generic communism,” order is still the order of the day, although now under the rubric of the Idea rather than the Party. Nonetheless, his traverse does register a more thoroughgoing...
Beauty Blogosphere 2.17.12
...browser: Baby boomers buy more cosmetics online than other age groups, which makes total sense to me. I wouldn't buy makeup online unless I knew it was exactly what I...
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...science over tradition and superstition, instrumental reason’s order over unruly emotion and intuition, rational mechanistic dominion over chaotic nature, and the autonomous self over community. The subjugated half of this...
Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
...We profile writers and run mini-workshops online. We're a support platform for African writers and publications featuring African writers. I guess I mainly just know SSDA from the anthologies! Could...
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...to make this pencil? There was no commissar sending … out orders from some central office. It was the magic of the price system: the impersonal operation of prices that...
Spectrum Order
...of spare parts.” But don't we all, to some degree? Lin's project has worked to incorporate the mechanisms of the literary autistic perspective into a generic contemporary subjectivity. If in...