Working With Kids
...display. Sitting at cafeteria tables, my students invent games with the quarters in their pockets. The quarters game, which they named Quarters, was so fun I tried to teach it...
Tree Sitting
...also the animals that feed on them: "Academic culture is a huge and diverse ecosystem. People who come along with grand plans about how everything is going to be transformed...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...Object Post-Internet,” author Artie Vierkant writes that the post-Internet condition is characterized by “ubiquitous authorship, the development of attention as currency, the collapse of physical space in networked culture, and...
Sunday Reading
... ReclaimUC: UC Berkeley set to pull the plug on the Emma Goldman archive Union democracy, student labor, and the fight for public education Poor kids who do...
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, December 15, 2015
..."We tried to give the human as much freedom as possible" • • • "Navigating an airport is challenging, there is a lot of glass and a constantly...
Mapping the Sneakernet
...the route of an undersea cable requires navigating a maze of economics, geopolitics, and topography. For example, the curvature of the planet makes the shortest distance between Japan and the...
Future's Coming Much Too Slow
...music (represented by radio songs and the lost love "Marianne") to drive the dream of something new and better, something reconfigured to make "my Marianne walk away." The sensuousness of...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: "[I]f you want to avoid breaking the law, make sure that your UC-affiliated friend…is taking a break from research before you enter their property." There was never...
Coldplay: Live at the Self-Checkout
Coldplay’s exciting new collaboration with grocery-store self-checkout aisles pushes the boundaries of automation, commerce, and art.
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Dark Knight: Occupy Batman
...Laws are that the culture built around the lies of Harvey Dent has been replaced by something more substantial, even permanent. This, it would seem to me, is very much...
Hello From the Same Side
...transcends language, culture, even species, then people who don’t share this response must have a defective, unnatural interpretive horizon—one that’s illiberal, incapable of the tolerance for difference that good liberal...
Athletic Aesthetics
...promise of Rate/Comment/Subscribe! culture is that viewers can engage in a more direct form of fandom, in which their tributary comments and reblogs are directly acknowledged by artists and eventually...
Shades of Sovereignty
...a collection of apartment buildings in South Minneapolis where many Somalis live. "He wanted to bring them back to the culture," one friend said. Mr. Ahmed left at the end...
Kill the Philosopher in Your Head
...Or rather, he was upset that the students on the streets in Paris ’68 told you there was one there to kill, so much so that he wanted their slogan...
Black Arts Boomerang
...present moment a Black Arts Boomerang. We have yet to close the gap between street actions and popular culture, personal and social liberations, but bridges are being built and traversed...
Baby Heists
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism