Information inundation and social deskilling
...didn't blame themselves. When I get the sense I am scrambling to keep up with my Google Reader feed or all the links flowing through on Twitter, I get overwhelmed...
Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
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?
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty
...The maqlouba isn't ready yet and though my stomach is growling, I feed on dialogue instead. I talk at length to a friend's wife about the Muslim ban, and why...
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...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
...Piggin' out. New law empowers Maine schools to feed uneaten school-lunch fare to farm hogs Fast-food fulfillment centers? Familiar chains have begun opening "ghost kitchens" dedicated exclusively to deliveries ordered...
Anti-Anti-Parasitism
...recognize that parasites—humans and non-humans alike—feed not off of individuals but off of relationships. They interrupt the connections between an individual and his food source, between communities, between an organism...
Room for Improvement
...humbugged humanity find a decent place to feed? Echo answered, "In the eating-houses." We resolved to try it, and the result is glorious. We have achieved a victory, sir, an...
Ramadan Diaries: Many Eids
...sociability. To feed myself, I would taxi to a "Western" hotel where they served a prix fixe menu during the day. The restaurant manager and wait staff took pity on...
#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...
Appetites
...have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process of feeding one another has broken the...