No Mushroom Cloud
...political economies. Older Japanese Americans pick the mushrooms recreationally and stay connected to a mainland culture they were intimidated into hiding or assimilating after World War II; Mien, Hmong, Cambodian,...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...cinema could do no better. In temporary lieu of that, below are a couple of the films he dragged into the light and insisted be seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-pHcC_M3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-WQZx2oJo http://www.veoh.com/watch/v14074458aY356Cd4 Lastly,...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...manipulate us into doing what needs to be done, to tell lies so persuasively that we mistake them for truth, and in that way, they can actually come true. When...
Feedbags
...You don't control an algorithm by feeding more information to it; you teach it to control you better. Facebook is updating the way it implements its News Feed...
An Infantile Disorder
...any particular culture. Age is the most generic attribute a person can have, but each age is also irreducibly personal. Every 35-year-old has been 16, but no one has ever...
Sunday Reading
...* ReclaimUC: How not to be a union The police think we're animals Death by degrees Damning report on OPD "the Frazier Report gives a detailed and somewhat devastating list...
The overload
...that implements an algorithmically curated feed reinforces for users that they shouldn’t be expected to deliberate over any desires or guide their own information-search processes. Such platforms teach users helplessness....
Sunday Reading
...unconscious expression of the French colonial imagination; it is a self-conscious comedy about it" A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Praise ReclaimUC: Frederick Wiseman's "At Berkeley," or, Seeing like an administration Any...
Public Spaces
...an analysis of contemporary art and media culture, where he describes the proliferation of artworks that unfold in time—from film and video to durational performance—as an implicit affirmation of modernism's...
Testing Beyond Control
...“I’m Feelin’ Like a Criminal: Why the Law Won’t Stop the Spread of HIV.” Positive Women’s Network - USA, pwnusa.wordpress.com. March 8, 2015. Jones is not alone in her distrust....
Bug Out
...and wiretaps feed back into a general surveillance culture, one that is defined by the assumption that not only are we being watched, but we are watching and spying on...
Ever Since This World Began
What truth are our faces allowed to show today?
Solving Happiness
...by our environment and culture. To complete the liberal project of emancipation, then, we need a final revolution: to be freed from ourselves. This project takes us well beyond the...
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!
The normalization of disability as an empowered status purportedly recognized by the state is produced through the creation and sustaining of debilitation on a mass scale
The Conservatism of Emoji
...smiley face is now so endemic to American culture that it’s easy to forget it is an invented artifact. The 1963 merger of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of...
Arguing the Web (1): Mash-Up A/V
...of songs we used to care about in his refracted, rejiggered form is, at its heart, the same exact thing, compositionally and otherwise, as listening to a brand new song...