One If by Land, Two If by Sea
...high-profile border operation in San Diego like the one that had just been tried in El Paso (Operation Blockade, later Hold the Line). The implementation of Operation Gatekeeper in San...
Beyond MLK
...been called out by activists repeatedly for his riot-shaming and victim-blaming, yet rather than apologizing, the great patriarch has tried to bad-jacket them as “provocateurs.” But the street kids made...
Stars
...feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of exoplanet discoveries. Show More Virgo: It is an understudied...
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
A Week Late and A Story Short: "Whispering Trees"
...and asked to discuss oral literature. We didn't. After a few false starts, the discussion finally found itself contemplating the literary and aesthetic values of rap music and slam poetry....
London (Poverty)
Referencing the history of high-end design magazines, Thatcherism, and London’s financialized housing market, Guo looks at the historical conditions which produced her current “world of interiors.”
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim uses primary documents to reveal the true costs of American art and the instutions built in its name.
A Country Disappeared
...education system (controlled by the teacher’s union) and open PEMEX, the state-owned oil company and Mexico’s main source of income, to private investment. Buried under these sweeping structural adjustments, and...
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
...Teachers tried to mitigate the problem by writing multiple versions of the same test, swapping in different versions of the same questions, or mixing up their order. That may have...
Sweet VR of California
Sweet Valley is a digital utopia where bodiless souls can explore psychedelic understandings through a networked VR high-school cult
Some Country for Some Women
As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.
Miracle Devices
The medical-device industry has been mobilized against the patients it purportedly serves
The Art of Movement: #FreeCeebo
...movement. Revolutionary art looks like a music video the shooting of which is itself a protest, a protest whose content also produces the lyrics. Ezell Ford was murdered by LAPD...
This Week in Art Crime
...went to these artificial beaches and enjoyed the feeling of being on holidays. I wondered why people were so easily manipulated, as if sand, drinks, music, and a tub of...
Own to Rent
...authentication to limit the number of devices on which software can be activated, to encrypting e-books in such a way that sharing is constrained, to encrypting movies and music to...
The Lights Are On but Nobody's Home
...As the number of data sources proliferate, opportunities increase for behavioral management as well as on-the-fly price discrimination. Through the dispersed system of mass monitoring and feedback, behaviors and cultures...