Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Episode One: All The Factory's A Stage
...turned out, this caste-based division of workers was itself divided, not least because the factory’s workforce comprised of both migrants and local villagers. Many of the upper-caste villagers, who worked...
Hi Haters!
...can leave behind offline stigmas, Franks describes a “world populated by an increasing number of unwilling avatars, reduced to their physical characteristics, caricaturized, ventriloquized and under attack.” Online, any of...
Who Can You Trust?
...visibility has enabled the company to make names, both real and imagined, a standard part of the online experience. Visitors can email [email protected] to schedule online or in-store appointments with...
Cookie Cutters
...every click, mouse motion, input, and location as they visit sites online or use their smartphones. The companies use this mass of data to categorize us and target advertisements, offers,...
Let Us Eat Cake
...online. Anirudh Sri, on the other hand, said he found the whole thing "weird." Though quick to note that the design would have little bearing on his life at Cal,...
Single Servings
...sort of Costco for the libido, has steadily overwhelmed mores developed under conditions of sexual scarcity. When online daters discover this cornucopia of flesh, they cast aside inhibition and commit...
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
In Defense of Spontaneous Contestation and/or Beauty
...austerely, 'An emergency may happen.' On the ground level of the museum the mood was buoyant. Art handlers from Local 814, transit workers from Local 100, communication workers, carpenters, and...
Palestine is Free (If You Want It)
The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.
Do the Robot
...are used to help select the most valuable unique and unmachine-like humans.) In other words, Southwest sets up a system where it behooves workers to pretend they care for customers...
A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
The Ladies Vanish
...denied pay and receives a lower online rating, making it harder to obtain future work on the site. But the legal structure of Mechanical Turk is such that Amazon can...
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
...both on and offline. But recent findings regarding the widespread misogyny entrenched in these systems leaves one asking: how can we understand instances of online abuse and update Haraway’s cyborgian...
Tree Sitting
...way of thinking about and describing how education can occur online in the most optimistic terms. It’s a way of taking a thing as non-specific and formless as “disruption” and...
Flatland
...functions, which connect cultural producers with their audiences, can be executed much more efficiently on the Internet. Artists have the ability to create vast social networks online, promote themselves and...