Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
"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...
The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education
What happens to higher education when universities can no longer hike tuition?
Manual Override
...us and how, about how we are made both fragile and generic, about who has to live this most literally, about how we’re supposed to be make ourselves seen pretending...
Enjoy the Rules
...through which their data and online activity are monetized is compelling. What’s less clear is if this can happen on anything like the scale necessary for replacing the middle-class jobs...
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...
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...
Design Is a Bureaucrat
...point of entry through which the many marginalized other significations can be accessed in order to be brought dialectically to bear on what's on the page, producing what Macherey's teacher...
Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations
...entire bakery’s worth of cream over its victim. And so if, as Crafton puts it, “slapstick is the generic term for these non-narrative intrusions, while gags are the specific forms...
Athletic Aesthetics
...work does not suit online content. There is now simply not enough time for a single assessor to explore an aesthlete’s full catalog, or for the market to price it...
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...that—puts you in the “moderate,” “reasonable” camp. Essentialization, even with the best of intentions, becomes the price of success. But by answering “maybe,” I think Soultana was imagining a different...
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 “so totally bored!!!,” the Canadian...
Virulence in the Virtual
...the computer screen. Anne C. Moore, online moderator of a late 90s Sixdegrees forum, entitled “Women in Gaming,” documented women’s discussions of gaming-related feminist issues, focusing mainly on traditional tabletop...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
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...