The White Man’s Boredom
Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims
Terrifying Robot Update!
...you know I didn’t think there were hummingbirds in this part of OH MY GOD ITS A FUCKING SPY ROBOT GET DOWN Kill it kill it kill it (via)...
August 9th, 2014
There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all
This Week in Art Crime
...In an ongoing case, Australian artist Paul Yore is facing child pornography charges following complaints concerning his work in a group show on view last year at Melbourne’s...
Whistleblowers Get the Bullet, Too
Coming forward with the state's secrets is not a ticket to absolution
Vagina Analogues
...for being who we are. Like vibrators, drones will inevitably proliferate far beyond the clinical confines of their original use. The devices of warmaking have already bled into amusement culture,...
Kindergarten/Cops
...knowing how awful it feels to be laughed at when you tell somebody what to do. I teach comedy and I have reprimanded kids for laughing at something I’ve done....
The 2014 TNI Awards
...in our bones, organs, and muscles until their payment comes due in our inevitable deaths, how would we understand our relation to art, culture, ideas, and politics? Without further ado,...
Ms. America
...impressed tourist. Affectless without irony, full of pop-symbolism that refuses to signify, perhaps an American culture drained of all moral qualities or ethical commitments is worth holding onto. A finally...
Poor Sleeping Habits
...Dutt song from the 1951 film Baazi plays in the background. The repetitive, broken recordings of 1950s Bollywood film songs shaped the radio-listening culture of Mumbai, haunting the urban sounds...
Privacy for Whom?
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
Witnessing Patriarchy
...fellow students were young, they tried to kill the father: Marxists all, they found Cheik Anta Diop’s work inadequate, ill-conceived, something to be cast off. Today, he reflected, decades after...
History Made Queasy
...verse 21 (29 BC) his cook tried to coax him to greater indulgence by preparing his favorite dishes. The cook knew Lee had a weakness for "old Virginia flapjacks ......
Summer Heat
...that Beverly Lee was actually a boy. On the day after Beverly Lee was shot, the Detroit News reported on the incident: Shot in the back as he tried to...
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
...drawn less to Roman’s crimes than to his self-fictionalizing. What did the man do all day? How could he prefer to kill everyone he loved rather than come clean about...
Gotta Have a Code
...Donnie would live forever). When I asked for his email, he quickly replied, ‘It's donnell loves fran at [...] dot com.' Real recognizes real, as he used to say....