The Enemy of All Mankind
...sublimity of seeing more of everything prevents any interrogation of how we see everything--of how, when, and for what ends we have tried to carve up the world. ...
Pushing Pixels
...they advanced and tried to commensurate different visions of the Martian surface. Some team members even developed an embodied sense of the rover’s experience on Mars, imaginatively reconstructing how it...
Cross-Border Operations
...labour). European governments have repeatedly tried to introduce a version of Australia’s system of “offshore” detention camps, initially in Libya and now with efforts to strike a “third country” agreement...
Organized Plunder
In the absence of the tax dollars city governments rely on, American are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.
Buying the Future
...the contract itself, just like for healthy cows. Otherwise, students will simply learn rather than valorize their human capital at the investors’ expected rate. Whereas most financial engineering has tried...
Unfit for Consumption
...that not all women bleed threatens patriarchal gender definitions and the power structures that enforce them. This societal edge bleed is refreshing amid more conventional advertising schemes, which push tried-and-true...
Sex Appeal, Beauty, and Normalcy: Rachel Hills' "The Sex Myth"
...confident in their appeal. Meanwhile, the actual route to confidence about one’s sex appeal—having positive early sexual experiences—remains unconsidered in the culture at large, almost shooed aside in favor of...
Then and Now and Never (Part 2)
...auto plants are set in its periphery. In so doing, I tried to get a wider sense of the factory, to see it as something itself situated in those long...
And Other Weary Geographies
...his half-composed, half-improvised delivery on one of the translated poems. An evening of reading and music based on travel, anti-travel, epistles, history, and other weary geographies. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi will...
Writing a bodaboda to Rideavism
...the work of a festival to harmonize those dissonances or to making music out of the cacophony? Maybe those gaps and surpluses are the point. Why else bring a group...
Sunday Reading
...from Java Hand Gestures in Buddhist Art Marcus du Sautoy on mathematics and music Telegraphs and Typewriters: The Impact of Technology on Bookkeeping at Bushire Kafka’s Tanks: an Early US...
The Revolution Goes Kablooie
...culture. You might as well call it anti-Friedmanism or anti-Gladwellism, because at its best, critical theory opposes reduction and teaches us that sexual preference isn’t an either-or toggle between straight...
Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs
...indeed, meme culture (including but not limited to YouTube parody, stock photo art, cut-ups and image macros) can be seen as the user asserting a subjectivity that exists and thrives...
The Potato System
...potato monoculture. Toil would ease, and with it discipline, breeding serious moral and social ills. The “effect of depending too exclusively on the culture of the Potato is fearfully exhibited...
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
...the example – of what happens when capitalism catches up with you. She is also, however, the girl who keeps outpacing capitalism, moving from magazine to online culture. While the...
To the Squirrels
...author named Harriet Parke (her name appears below his). So, for the most part, Agenda 21 emphasizes culture rather than class. The environmental Republic bans mention of God. It disallows...