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...
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...
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...
Work Appropriate
...voice is one I look forward to seeing pop up in my blog feed. She's also written for The Closet Feminist, Lacquerheads of Oz, and The Peach. When I learned...
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...my feed is full of feministy fashion types and I'm one myself) often hear the idea that fashion needs to be more realistic—and a fashion illustrator who makes her trade...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.31.13
...is. (via Caitlin) Trolled: "Don't feed the trolls" is an oft-heard admonition (one I usually follow myself) 'round the internets—particularly when it comes to trolls who bait women by arguing...
Violence Is Mine
...at its margins or, to use a more appropriate metaphor, in its feed. This fuels the slippage between everyday activity and symbolic violence that characters in digital works undergo —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wages Versus Progress
...stagnate. It doesn’t say, feed families or obviate want or improve lives and opportunities for wage earners. The idea that fair wages should be a normal part of the calculation...
& (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...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 14, 2020)
...Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Image: Boston Public Library Aussie government begins airborne food drops to feed wildlife displaced by ongoing fires Celebrity survivalist finds dead...