Alienated Nerds
NFTs as gentrified fandom and the destruction of cultural autonomy in the digital age
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...
Single Servings
...A new post-scarcity business model is in order: Like Google and Facebook, a successful online company going forward will need to rely on targeted advertising and on capturing user behavior...
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...
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”
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,...
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
...are fundamentally machine-readable: they can only be seen by humans in special circumstances and for short periods of time. A photograph shot on a phone creates a machine-readable file that...
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...
Class Consciousness for American Doctors
Professionalism is the ideological terrain on which medicine’s culture interacts with its class politics
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...
Turn Down for What?
...she can go online and lease it to her neighbors. It’s the same thing neighbors have always done, but rationalized and better suited for a population that’s used to relations...
Redefining the Right Wing
...developed and evolved in opposition to perceived innovations and challenges to the existing order. Postwar conservatism in America has certainly been defined by a series of reactions against rapid or...
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.
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world