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...
Call Volume
A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
Sunday Reading
...schoolrooms, they became a tool for teachers to control the movement of children, whose healthy tendency toward activity made them difficult to teach." "The MOOC is a dialectic. It invites...
Feinting Spells
...at the world’s rebirth; Like the yeast white flour needs; For who would teach rhythm to a dead world of cannons and machines? Who would give the shout of joy...
Five Questions with Christopher Rey Pérez
...share with each other that work toward a better reality but it’s sustaining them over time and across geographies that makes self-realization difficult. In Palestine, I used to teach a...
Dissatisfaction City
...could one avoid noticing the social forces acting upon it, the power and extortion compelling it to undulate and pose in rhythm to the music? But then one of my...
Sunday Reading
...view of Charlie Hebdo from the French Left Integration and discrimination in France Suburban poverty, pedestrians, and which lives matter On Black Canadian Thought Who will teach at free community...
Sunday Reading
...Failure n+1 Occupy Gazette Issue 4 Invisible Borders that Define American Culture Leave Your Cellphone at Home Music, Modernism, and the Twilight of the Elites The Rise of the Wonky...
Unfit for Consumption
...used to viewing women in their underwear as complete human beings. Thinx ads, 2015 The Thinx ads disrupt this view of scantily clad women by emphasizing the visceral rather than...
The Enemy of All Mankind
...sublimity of seeing more of everything prevents any interrogation of how we see everything--of how, when, and for what ends we have tried to carve up the world. ...
Sex Appeal, Beauty, and Normalcy: Rachel Hills' "The Sex Myth"
...confident in their appeal. Meanwhile, the actual route to confidence about one’s sex appeal—having positive early sexual experiences—remains unconsidered in the culture at large, almost shooed aside in favor of...
Buying the Future
...contract to purchase cattle in June 2015 and compare it with the August contract. If the price difference is too great—if they are cheap in June and pricey in August—they...
Pushing Pixels
...they advanced and tried to commensurate different visions of the Martian surface. Some team members even developed an embodied sense of the rover’s experience on Mars, imaginatively reconstructing how it...
Cross-Border Operations
...labour). European governments have repeatedly tried to introduce a version of Australia’s system of “offshore” detention camps, initially in Libya and now with efforts to strike a “third country” agreement...
And Other Weary Geographies
...his half-composed, half-improvised delivery on one of the translated poems. An evening of reading and music based on travel, anti-travel, epistles, history, and other weary geographies. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi will...
Sunday Reading
...from Java Hand Gestures in Buddhist Art Marcus du Sautoy on mathematics and music Telegraphs and Typewriters: The Impact of Technology on Bookkeeping at Bushire Kafka’s Tanks: an Early US...