Lost in the Supermarket
...prescient: “Things have an ugly look still. No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in...
Working With Kids
...display. Sitting at cafeteria tables, my students invent games with the quarters in their pockets. The quarters game, which they named Quarters, was so fun I tried to teach it...
Tree Sitting
...also the animals that feed on them: "Academic culture is a huge and diverse ecosystem. People who come along with grand plans about how everything is going to be transformed...
Sunday Reading
... ReclaimUC: UC Berkeley set to pull the plug on the Emma Goldman archive Union democracy, student labor, and the fight for public education Poor kids who do...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...Object Post-Internet,” author Artie Vierkant writes that the post-Internet condition is characterized by “ubiquitous authorship, the development of attention as currency, the collapse of physical space in networked culture, and...
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, December 15, 2015
..."We tried to give the human as much freedom as possible" • • • "Navigating an airport is challenging, there is a lot of glass and a constantly...
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...flicks a feed. My interest doesn't lie in the general anthropological overhaul bound up with the digital, for which the phone has come to serve as one particularly visible index....
Mapping the Sneakernet
...saw on people's phones: There were Chinese kung fu movies, Nigerian comedies, and Ugandan pop music. They were physically transferred, phone to phone, Bluetooth to Bluetooth, USB stick to USB...
Future's Coming Much Too Slow
...music (represented by radio songs and the lost love "Marianne") to drive the dream of something new and better, something reconfigured to make "my Marianne walk away." The sensuousness of...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: "[I]f you want to avoid breaking the law, make sure that your UC-affiliated friend…is taking a break from research before you enter their property." There was never...
Kid Stuff
...the test. There’s a popular conception in mainstream US culture that childhood is carefree. Self-help listicles abound promising to teach struggling adults how to Live Like a Kid, Have Fun...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Coldplay: Live at the Self-Checkout
Coldplay’s exciting new collaboration with grocery-store self-checkout aisles pushes the boundaries of automation, commerce, and art.
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Dark Knight: Occupy Batman
...Laws are that the culture built around the lies of Harvey Dent has been replaced by something more substantial, even permanent. This, it would seem to me, is very much...
Hello From the Same Side
...a “crystallizer of complicated feelings...in a way that made the music somehow feel universal.” In both Trump’s and “Hello”’s case, fans experience an apparently immediate emotional identification with a performance,...