Bleak House
...if father or son found work, he often couldn't wring enough earnings from that work to feed, clothe and shelter his family. "In some counties," a Select Committee on Labourer's...
The Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.
#mybodymyhome (ii)
...my lips. Touch every part of my being with your fingertips. Explore my soul and take my breath away. With your tenderness possess my heart. Feed me with love....
Love in the Age of Self-Consciousness
...social processes that shape us, dictating their outcome by administering carefully what we feed into them. Modern identity, then, is born of the alienation of auto-surveillance, which makes the self...
The Esoteric Whodunit
...on the subject and who parrot theoretical views with no ability to assess their validity — in other words, many of the people who appear on your Facebook feed whenever...
Northern Exposure
...proverb Codfish covered thousands of acres, enough to feed an army. "A piscatorial paradise!," as Caton himself remarked. But when he sat down to his first meal aboard that Norwegian...
Plié ... Relevé ... Heel!
...slices and feed to the dog as required." What reward did the Animal Comedians receive for their crowd-pleasing exploits? Did their keeper regale them with backstage feasts of hazelnuts and...
The People's Kitchen
...Does the modern workplace cafeteria owe its existence one 19th-century activist's effort to feed the laboring multitudes? Illustrations from Le Livre de Cuisine (1867) Though the phonograph and the...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of December 8, 2019)
...food, cattle feed I’m always taking suggestions for food-related articles, projects, thought experiments to feature. Send them to @AusterityKitchn, and let me know how you would like to be credited....
Go, Tootsie, Go
...But when I started to look through my blog feed for the past few days and saw that I was on the tail end of many, many shares, I had...
Frenemies
...and technological links between segregation, surveillance, and the construction of internet worlds. A feed is not so different from a gated community, operating under the rules of homophily and assuming...
The General Store of Yore
...molasses, old onions and potatoes, poultry feed, gun oil, rubber boots, calico, dried fish, coffee, and 'kept' eggs." (By "'kept' eggs" Carson means "eggs that should have been shipped off...
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words
...pig-feed because you went to school with the distributor – your economic activities will be simply a means of raising your status among your peers and community, or of marking...
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...audience knows when each joke ends.” The effect is a synthetic montage, with jumps between emotions and characters whose emotional whiplash resembles a social media feed (lesser comics just read...
There Will Be Thinkpieces
...live feed news cycle and Facebook safety checks and the sudden ubiquity of the French Tricolore in response to devastation in Paris and the comparative silence on Beirut, Baghdad or...