Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...to be appreciation and not stealing? This is exactly how colonization and slavery happened too. Folks decided they wanted somebody else’s land, culture, even people, and simply took them with...
Fit Provender
...Illustrations from Physical Culture, Vols. 8-9 (1902-1903) Mrs. Trustle presided with genius and elan over New York's Physical Culture restaurant. A grandmotherly woman of about sixty, she had...
No Mushroom Cloud
...political economies. Older Japanese Americans pick the mushrooms recreationally and stay connected to a mainland culture they were intimidated into hiding or assimilating after World War II; Mien, Hmong, Cambodian,...
Feedbags
...You don't control an algorithm by feeding more information to it; you teach it to control you better. Facebook is updating the way it implements its News Feed...
Speak/Now
...in feminist blogging that Butler identified in academic feminism of the 80s. One possible site of this anxiety is the lyrics of Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift’s music, her persona, but...
An Infantile Disorder
...any particular culture. Age is the most generic attribute a person can have, but each age is also irreducibly personal. Every 35-year-old has been 16, but no one has ever...
Sunday Reading
...* ReclaimUC: How not to be a union The police think we're animals Death by degrees Damning report on OPD "the Frazier Report gives a detailed and somewhat devastating list...
The overload
...that implements an algorithmically curated feed reinforces for users that they shouldn’t be expected to deliberate over any desires or guide their own information-search processes. Such platforms teach users helplessness....
Sunday Reading
...unconscious expression of the French colonial imagination; it is a self-conscious comedy about it" A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Praise ReclaimUC: Frederick Wiseman's "At Berkeley," or, Seeing like an administration Any...
No Kings of New York
...equally equipped to produce genre-expanding music and solve paranormal crime. To my knowledge they only do one of the two on a regular basis. How do you manage the demands...
It Gets Worse
...kind of criticism forecloses the chance to look at Odd Future’s music as fiction, to see it as an attempt at truth, as artists’ creation rather than the simple abstraction...
Bug Out
...and wiretaps feed back into a general surveillance culture, one that is defined by the assumption that not only are we being watched, but we are watching and spying on...
Ever Since This World Began
What truth are our faces allowed to show today?
Solving Happiness
...by our environment and culture. To complete the liberal project of emancipation, then, we need a final revolution: to be freed from ourselves. This project takes us well beyond the...
Sunday Reading
...second draft. The death of the International Herald Tribune Lenin's favorite instrument was the theramin. The United Steelworkers explores coops. The failure of disaster citizenship in Japan. Rape culture's Abu...
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!
The normalization of disability as an empowered status purportedly recognized by the state is produced through the creation and sustaining of debilitation on a mass scale