Black President
...that popular culture will always orient itself toward the president, although sometimes it’s a more powerful orientation than other times. The only thing that happened when Bush was president was...
A Time for Treason
...Security Culture, CrimethInc EFF Surveillance Self Defense The Intercept's Surveillance Self Defense against the Trump Administration Things To Know About Web Security Before Trump’s Inauguration How Journalists Can Protect Themselves...
Data Occupations
...one thing a community with such strong roots in maker culture is not good at, it’s obediently following directions and obliging designers’ intentions: To thine own self be true. Quantified...
Unacceptable Bodies
...cases, Ashley’s case illustrates that the very language we use to describe and justify medical and ethical decision making comes from and reinforces a culture of medicalization. Key to creating...
TNI Syllabus: Gaming and Feminism
...Death of the Player •Celia Pearce & Friends: Experimental Game Design • • • Straight White Males: Video Game Media and Gaming Culture •Maddy Myers: Gaming, rape culture, and how...
Pretty/Funny (Guest Post)
...MNN Lifestyle Channel October 3 at 2 p.m., and on MNN’s Culture Channel October 7 at 10:30. It will also be live-streamed on MNN.org during those times. (And if you...
Twilight of the Mentors
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love my gatekeeper
Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
Reader's Digest
...A Review of Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac So strange and hectic a phantasmagoria were the streets of the...
Plantation Neoliberalism
...opposite direction.” It is, in other words, a flight from reconstituted plantations to somewhere else, a refusal of work and work’s culture whose negative movement opens space for something new....
St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene
...How does such a definition come to take hold, when the culture it emerges from is filled with very explicit accounts of horror, from the zombie film to the serial...
Reality Fiction
...to me that maybe inadvertently you sort of put yourself into the literary tradition. SH: I guess all of us were watching TV. And it felt like the whole culture,...
Hurt People
The state cannot destroy us the way we destroy each other
Anti-Fascisting
“None of us, under capitalism, can claim to be wholly free of fascism.” An interview with Natasha Lennard.
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...invitation with a torrent of JPEGs tagged with commentary on rape culture, on the allegations against him, and further lambasting his hypocritical respectability politics. I have no idea what he...
Take Me Away
A love letter to Mariah Carey