Cell Culture and Science Culture
...process known as tissue culture . Meanwhile, the Aschheim-Zondek or A-Z test took five days, requiring dozens of rodents and technicians to dissect them. This was one of Seegar’s tasks...
Everything is a Target—Full Text of Interview with Peter Galison
...Japan, about industrial dispersion. Then comes the crucial step: They began to try to train American city planners and industry leaders, in fact, distributed grids that were clear plastic targeting...
Everything Is a Target
...side of a nuclear bomb. When that happened they looked back at what happened, in Germany especially more than Japan, about industrial dispersion. Then comes the crucial step: They began...
Concept Album
...questioning the very meaning of the words music and failure when joined together. The point of looking at music and failure is not to revel in cynicism or absolve complacency...
Lester Bangs and Rock Music As The Eternal High School Girlfriend
...critiquing music, Lester Bangs had a very public and messy personal relationship with rock & roll. In this essay declaring the Stones lost and irrelevant, he breaks into a free-verse...
Eine Kleine SpaceMusik
...action is like music. I like that. What have you learned about the relationship between culture and science? I think you just have to accept there are different understandings...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
The Trouble with Digital Conservatism
...the limitations of MIDI yield a music that ignores what MIDI can’t capture, the social tools of Facebook come to constitute the boundaries of friendship, and so on. In each...
Call for Papers: Theorizing the Web 2015
...speculative fiction, sci-fi --Games, gamification, game culture --Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, disability, and other forms of inequality (taken separately or woven into any of the above)...
Wound Down Inside
...sonic impact of a downbeat is not a new thing. In 19th century European “classical” music, composers softened a song’s harmonic resolution by placing the cadence on an off-beat rather...
To Sit on a Throne of Teeth, Graced With a Crown of Teeth
...last century, in which the development of a socialist hierarchy complete with Commissars of Culture and centralized cinematic planning was occasionally plausible. This does not mean, however, that we should...
The History of Dialogue: Black Friday
...content. The best pop songs are the emptiest. At that point, pop music has nothing to do with subjectivity or identity construction: You don’t become empty when you hear it;...
The Birth of the Uncool: Yacht Rock and Libidinal Subversion
...century, sadly misrecognizes its role, regarding the form as reactionary and "counterrevolutionary" rather than a subtle dialectical initiative instigated by alienated workers from within the culture industry, the very operatives...
The Nuclear National Family
The Fukushima disaster exposed fissures in Japanese society that its familial politics tries to paper over
Centrifugal Women
Yūko Tsushima’s novel of a mother on the margins
Wizards of Like
...premise that makes News Feed work as it is supposed to, as an ad conduit. The algorithm is there to make the News Feed into commercial broadcast television and to...