Can’t See the Wood for the Trees
Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.
Body Image Tips From Plato
...blame this on patriarchal culture, but I’m pretty sure it’s more complex than that. of DeeDeeness? For some weird reason,*** in my mind the Ideal Form of DeeDee isn't characterized...
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim uses primary documents to reveal the true costs of American art and the instutions built in its name.
Masstige and Bargain Beauty
...knowing that I’ve tried less expensive brands and that the high-ish price actually buys quality in this case. What nonfinancial rewards are most likely to drive your own beauty purchases?...
Native Regard
...is society where none intrudes, / by the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not Man the less, but Nature more. --Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage...
Own to Rent
...authentication to limit the number of devices on which software can be activated, to encrypting e-books in such a way that sharing is constrained, to encrypting movies and music to...
Nightspawn
...for the eerie quality of his urban nocturnes, but as a man and a photographer he preferred the warmth of seedy music halls and the company of prostitutes. Now imagine...
Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center present "Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn" (9/20)
...Young presenting a film on refuge and the African-American diaspora inside the historic sanctuary of Bethel Tabernacle AME Church; collective Otabenga Jones & Associates broadcasting music and radical histories from...
Seeing Through Transparency
...serious blow in a public arena.” The culture buckanneers of the Pirate Bay BitTorrent site have helped package and distribute chunks of WikiLeaks data around the internet. For a while,...
I'm Not Ready
...announcement, bringing to mind the first moments of falling in love with a band via a Behind the Music special or radio single. The language of readiness reveals the lack...
The Lights Are On but Nobody's Home
...As the number of data sources proliferate, opportunities increase for behavioral management as well as on-the-fly price discrimination. Through the dispersed system of mass monitoring and feedback, behaviors and cultures...
Permission Slips
...and secrets must be unveiled. In a brief sequence set to stock “uplifting” music, Finding Vivian Maier attempts to anticipate such accusations of exploitation by detailing Maier’s correspondence over having...
The Search
...by, all gotten up as young eccentrics with their beards and bicycles, and down they go into the Quarter to hear some music and find some whores and still I...
Sunday Reading
..."They under-perform because their white lower middle-class culture values sociability” “a pilot program for a massive facial recognition surveillance system” Reclaim UC: University of California steps up out-of-state recruiting The...
Daddy O
...my favorite obscure band, and the smiles I get (nearly all from men over fifty) feel like the knowing glances exchanged by two music nerds passing in the street. Joe...
How Many Licks
...yelling, music, poetry, the Department of Homeland Security. Part of what makes heteronormcore so boring is its inability to dream bodies outside its own dictionary. Part of what makes capturing...