Body Mass Index
...from its heroine or its audience the typical range of video-game tasks. Unlike the action-movie or war-game hero, Bullock has nothing to shoot and no one to kill. Her task,...
Troubled Mime
...own behalf. His motives he did not reveal, even after he won acquittal. As to why such a talented man should kill a child, Deburau's biographer Tristan Rémy conjectured that...
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Sunday Reading
...Life in Kerala, India (1937) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina "Like numerous other aspects of modernity, uniforms first penetrated Turkish culture through the military" Criminality and Colonial...
Announcing Ayesha Siddiqi
...of TNI Magazine featuring Ayesha's work: [r]Click the image or PDF link to download[/r] Featuring "Bikini Kill" by Ayesha Siddiqi Featuring "Prescription Strike" by Ayesha Siddiqi Featuring "Can the White...
Life Is Too Much Like Real Life
...every function—it’s hard not to see a certain parallel with how capitalism is killing and eating liberalism. Our heroes spend most of the movie being completely at a loss as...
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
Encore
A Second Letter from Paris
Beauty Blogosphere 3.1.13
...Sarah Bartmann during her life and after her death speaks of suffering, dispossession, sadness and loss of dignity, culture, community, language and life. It is a symptom of the inhumanity...
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, July 25, 2014
...machine age—we are close to concluding the second one—we are moving into the third one. And there is probably no fourth one. No shit. They're gonna kill us all....
Living is Easy
...When it comes to summer entertainment, movies are shouting about nothing into empty theatres. Then they kill everyone Summer movies promise us many things, but mostly they promise recognizable...
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
...we have to create a world that won’t kill us, and avoid the ones that will. After all, The Apprentice was great reality TV until it became reality. ...
2. Consumed by Abstraction
...editors - who had always argued in favor of corporate takeovers - began whining about how their takeover by Rupert Murdoch would "kill the culture" of the newspaper. Ha. Likewise,...
Econospeak
...and corporations doing, if not constantly “re-establishing themselves” as “market players?” These mantras have been the refrain of HR manuals for decades, but their crossover into pop culture has been...
The New Inquiry Vol. 55: Testing
...absent from teachers who imposed punishments driving her to contemplate suicide “more days than not.” Cheating’s “tiny filament of comradeship” was a lifeline. Her experience is far from abnormal: one...
Kony 2012 Forever
Lessons from the first viral campaign for military intervention