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...
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...
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...
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...
Propositions for Twenty Unmade Works of Art
...feed on them for several weeks Photograph the new maps 15 Make a work based on the hazards of your job Be specific and unsparing 16 On the night of...
#NotAllPublic, Heartburn, Twitter
...the other hand, the decision about whether or not to treat someone’s twitter feed as fair game is more complicated, something that cannot so easily be incorporated into self-righteous assertions...
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...
Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 4 & 5)
...more than solid feed for those bodies that look as hungry as these do. However if the quantity is ample the quality seems less certain. From this angle the teeth...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
Lumps of Labor
...or under what conditions — they’re at least creating some value and thereby doing their part to feed the Economy rather than leeching value out of it. Given how much...
The New Inquiry Vol. 48: Appetites
...eating disorder of a different kind: They have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.31.13
...is. (via Caitlin) Trolled: "Don't feed the trolls" is an oft-heard admonition (one I usually follow myself) 'round the internets—particularly when it comes to trolls who bait women by arguing...
Liquid authenticity
...Frédéric Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital helps clarify how two of the fantasies that feed neoliberal ideology — liquidity and authenticity — interrelate. The two concepts represent two...
Don DeLillo Did 9/11
...II his protagonist — a reclusive novelist — gives voice to fear that the medium is going out of fashion: The novel used to feed our search for meaning…. But...