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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
You are totally unreliable Twitter
...irritated that I tweet about rape culture; if you follow me because we went to school together, all sorts of things I tweet about may surprise you. In other words,...
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...
Sowing Scarcity
...surpasses capitalist directed wage labor. This is late capitalism’s inverted world, where business and government treat nature as infinite but strictly ration culture. Thus does capitalism, billed in every economics...
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...
Pryor Restraint
...had become too entrenched in our culture to make out. Black American movie stardom existed before Richard Pryor, flourished even, but through the lens of his arc from ace comic...