RENT STRIKE 2020
A RESOURCE LIST
The Noonday Shadow
...their point of origin, the precinct. What the gags involve and consider, then, are the halted objects of the chase, their potentially surprising properties: chests that don’t contain what is...
Let Us Eat Cake
...that “Strength Through Vagueness” article observes, the eleven person team that spent three years designing that monstrosity were originally asked “to come up with a piece of visual collateral that...
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.
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
...of activations, keypoints, eigenfaces, feature transforms, classifiers, training sets, and the like. But it’s not just as simple as learning a different vocabulary. Formal concepts contain epistemological assumptions, which in...
How to Talk About the Weather
...that was that we’re actually in a new geological period in which humans are a geological force. They’ve become geological agents. What they mean by this is we’ve always been...
Wizards of Like
...the News Feed into commercial broadcast television and to guarantee a suitably passive audience for it. Like TV has long done, they're just giving the people what they want....
"Organic stories"
...what really matters to Facebook — that you feed it likes and comments and so on. It's going to rig your feed to extort the most interaction (a.k.a. free immaterial...
Looney Tunes
...But, Can they suffer?” This is related to something we've dealt with when it comes to humans. For a long time people didn't think infants could experience pain, and that's...
The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
Natural's Not In It
...notion that humans adapted to vastly different circumstances than the ones they live under today — that before the relatively recent shift to an agriculture, industry- and internet-based society, we...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...Young Mr. Lincoln, he’s still working from the earlier ideological playbook, and the problem of containing and regulating overzealous enthusiasm (and out of control rough-and-tumble democracy) is the central problem....
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)
...movement,' 'graffiti lettering adds realism to the disheveled sign,' 'Converse sneakers are a bit too trendy for an idealist'). ? ? ? 12. 'Fashion is the armor to survive the...
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
We Call It a Dismantling Process
Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...cinema could do no better. In temporary lieu of that, below are a couple of the films he dragged into the light and insisted be seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-pHcC_M3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-WQZx2oJo http://www.veoh.com/watch/v14074458aY356Cd4 Lastly,...