There Will Be Thinkpieces
...live feed news cycle and Facebook safety checks and the sudden ubiquity of the French Tricolore in response to devastation in Paris and the comparative silence on Beirut, Baghdad or...
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...
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...
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...
#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 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...
& (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...
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...
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...
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...
What part of NO don’t you understand?
...their morticians, and their assistants, and their perpetual faux-cool pauses and faux-in-control pauses. ????????? compared the Judge’s Room to a shame. She compared the ????????? (20009-Present) to a shame and...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.5.13
...swift for me—I've also taken a good look at my blog feed and have realized it could use a renewal. I love being able to direct you to so many...