#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....
The Networked Assembly Line
...replacements. However, exploitation does not always take the form of humans literally teaching computers to replace them. Whenever we interact with software/websites/businesses built using machine learning systems, we provide data...
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...
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....
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...
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...my RSS feed. And then, I shrugged. Apathy doesn’t seem like the greatest reason to tune out of something that, intellectually and politically speaking, enrages me—or at least should...
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 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...
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...
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
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...
Biopolitical Exclusion Starts with a Hug
...money to feed yourself. Hence a return to housing and welfare programs as structural interventions that would assist a hugging program would seem essential first steps—but no, hugging is simply...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...some dark corner of my house, eating potato chips and refreshing my Tumblr feed in the hope that someone will have “liked” my Photoshopped picture of Kanye West in a...
Signs of ephemerality
...other users exhibiting similar behavior patterns) but also make it plain that all the archived information about us feed directly into our efforts to capitalize on our sociality—to turn our...
Oculus Birth
...experience." Figure 5: The live feed. Figure 6: The mother experiences the birth of her child from the child's perspective. Figure 7: Crowning. Figure 9: "Happy Birthday." Figure 10: The...
What part of NO don’t you understand?
...their morticians, and their assistants, and their perpetual faux-cool pauses and faux-in-control pauses. ????????? compared the Judge’s Room to a shame. She compared the ????????? (20009-Present) to a shame and...