Sunday Reading
...culture is etched into products that define the player-construct’s existence." Videogames Without Players A review of Kitty Horrorshow's Dust City On Furniture Design in Videogames The Death and Life of...
Tender Potatoes
...Chantal Akerman’s films show how murderous violence always lurks in the mundanity of the domestic WHEN Chantal Akerman’s hyperrealist homage to ritualistic domesticity, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce,...
Rock of Nations
A leader of the Alcatraz Occupation discusses its successful tactics in reversing the federal policy of Indian termination
White Magic
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
Chaos Orders Us: A Letter From Paris
Why, all across the globe, does everything that serves to preserve the tradition of the oppressed also serve to oppress COVID-19?
Postcard from the Internet
...com for the immigrant. But as I was moving through life saddened by the truth of this scattered sedimentation and exclusion from the world of heritage discovery, the internet came...
Stuck on the Chaise Lounge: The Female Subject in Psychiatry from Pathology to Prozac
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
DNA-based prediction of Nietzsche’s voice
...genomic DNAs were generated. Nietzsche’s genotype was singled out after comparison to genotype data from one living relative of the Nietzsche family. Nietzsche’s genotype data was analyzed using a DNA-based...
Plants, Domesticity, and the Female Poisoner
...independent research includes topics in science and literature, especially overlap between the two. She blogs at The Virtuoso Blog. Contact Afton on Twitter @TheVirtuosoBlog or through email at [email protected]...
Acta del Desastre
El levantamiento de Puerto Rico y la Instrumentalización de Lin-Manuel Miranda
Canceled Message (Part Three)
...Part One here; Part Two here. Bio is a text written / deleted / rewritten on Twitter dot com for one year. That accumulation / deletion / recomposition...
Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and the Language of Denigration
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance
...teach me to love Blackness and love Allah nonetheless. In her eyes and in His, I was whole. * * * As Black folks, we are in practice not a...
Call Volume
A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
The master-smartphone dialectic
...on Thursdays, can really show the iPhone who is boss. That will teach that dastardly iPhone not to be uppity. The beauty of the smartphone from the management point of...
My Father’s Sign
...like our uncle Aki, who he met on air. Aki came to visit a number of times; he even tried—and failed—to teach me how to hold chopsticks properly. (I still...