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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Manual Override
...The history of sabotage is the history of capitalism unmaking itself And if linesmen make connections, can’t you make dis-connections? —Guy Bowman to telephone company workers, The Syndicalist, 1913...
A Detrimental Education
Zaina Alsous talks with Eli Meyerhoff about his book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World.
Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)
...liberalism, as it is practiced, only calls itself “free will” in order to better mask the mechanisms of governance). The commune cannot exist without certain obligations. Consider, for example, the...
The Virtual Watchers
...surveillance on the US/Mexico border carried out by civilians online. This surveillance is mainly carried out through online participatory platforms that appeared after the rise of Web 2.0. These technologies...
Graphic Interface
...these can’t be the status quo. DR: At least that’s something. SG: One of your commands for online conduct is to “Be yourself.” What separates your vision of online transparency...
The Trouble with Digital Conservatism
...life as carried out online begins to more closely resemble our experience of the contemporary public sphere, itself entirely colonized by commercial messages and decodable contiguites of brands. On Facebook,...
The Secret Shopper
...online bulletin board (often after a brief training and vetting period). Jobs are posted and claimed constantly, meaning the shopper has to spend a good deal of time online, especially...
Interview: Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
...Nuns in my order can be married, but your very first commitment is to God, before anything else. But I’ve never really thought about dressing for God, because God knows...
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
...While radiation contamination continues, permeating the planet beyond the national border, the off-lined nuclear reactors have been put back online, one by one. In the rest of the world, most...
Coal Comfort
...through a program of wealth redistribution and infrastructural investment, with a carbon-free Canada by 2050. To be sure, capital has workarounds for activists as well. In one high-profile example, Malm...
The Contagious Assembly
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order