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...
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...
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 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...
#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...
& (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...
Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
The Magnetic North
...so happens we decide that seeking them from “legitimate” authorities is normative. It’s as though the psychics were providing a live feed, a form of surveillance. Traversing such long...
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...
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
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...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 2)
...to meet their requirements as well as those of taste. A banquet, a luncheon, a camping supper, a 'club feed,' are only incidentally nourishing. It is the social element and...
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...
Sunday Reading
...* Don’t Feed the Psychotic Narcissists * DeAndre McCullough (1977-2012) * The Mystery of Charles Dickens * Gore Vidal's Detective Novels * Justin Bieber initials on all my winter clothes...
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?