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...
Nairobi in the Age of the World Target
...floors. Like an inane mosquito that might also be giving you malaria, Al Shabab’s Twitter feed buzzes in everyone’s ears, taunting, boasting, sounding anything but “ashamed and defeated” as they...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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....
#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 Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.
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...
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...
#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...