Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
It has always been profound to me that the brass ring is a brass ring.
...come to be seen as both the precursor and hallmark of success. And so also the object of imitation. Hence our present culture of imitation. In this culture a successful...
Class Consciousness for American Doctors
Professionalism is the ideological terrain on which medicine’s culture interacts with its class politics
Bloodless Coop
...of the erotic, naturalness, stereotypical femininity, and the earth, and also serves, according to the classic structuralist argument, as an oppositional coding that reinforces normative categories of culture, masculinity, and...
Folk Etymologies
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...were signs with the names of the dead, alongside messages calling for an end to discrimination against favela dwellers, as well as demanding the right of public safety. Brazil's musicians...
Sunday Reading
...Nina Simone sings one of my favorite songs Bint Battuta Maqha, Ahweh: An Etude in Café A list of some ethnic stereotypes in Syriac The name and the face: on...
RUPTURES: Between the City and the Art World
...by thisistomorrow on the 12th December and archived on their website: thisistomorrow.info. For more information: [email protected] The full programme will be available on: www.rupturesinplaces.com To book FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruptures-between-the-city-and-the-art-world-tickets-19674357533...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...We’ve tried pretty much everything, and they just ignore us. We’ve talked to state legislators, written petitions, mobilized people on campus. The next step for us is in the tradition...
Feminist Anthropology Part II
...understandings of human culture, anthropologists have avoided imposing ethical standards on ethnographic communities. Notions of morality are not universal and often depend upon the religious, social, and cultural milieu of...
Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World’s Fair
...fair’s Department of Physical Culture, Sullivan had a leading role in the creation of the 1904 Olympics, which were taking place in St. Louis, and was himself a former athlete....
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
...those framed as creating or, in this case, bearing terror in their very identities, histories, cultures, and relationships. To be Somali in Kenya now is to be a terrorist, to...
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...culture that—however latent it may be—a dystopian neo-noir still has to presume the off-world adventures of the real future, where Wagon Train can continue in space. And where does Deckard...
cartography's nausea
...It is well known that the atlas made in Japan and the atlases made abroad, let’s say in London, have different compositions. That is, Japan is placed at...