Liquid authenticity
...Frédéric Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital helps clarify how two of the fantasies that feed neoliberal ideology — liquidity and authenticity — interrelate. The two concepts represent two...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of December 8, 2019)
...food, cattle feed I’m always taking suggestions for food-related articles, projects, thought experiments to feature. Send them to @AusterityKitchn, and let me know how you would like to be credited....
What part of NO don’t you understand?
...the cause of her truth and the fact of her darkness, obdurate and destructive. In a letter to ?????????, published in Ecrits Posthumes, a book auto-da-féed in 2009, ????????? wrote,...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...my feed is full of feministy fashion types and I'm one myself) often hear the idea that fashion needs to be more realistic—and a fashion illustrator who makes her trade...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...Carl E. Stranz. ...To Toe... Pachyderm pedi: Elephant pedicure video. (Why doesn't someone feed me apples when I get a pedicure?) ...And Everything In Between: Digital ladies: L'Oréal is launching...
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words
...pig-feed because you went to school with the distributor – your economic activities will be simply a means of raising your status among your peers and community, or of marking...
The Networked Assembly Line
...of their business model. For example, Facebook uses machine learning to continually adjust what you see in your news feed by using your past activity to make a prediction about...
Escape From Minus World
...and feed myself because everyone I meet accepts my plastic credit card as easily as they would some ink-stained cloth. There is a distinction between the two objects for me,...
Frenemies
...and technological links between segregation, surveillance, and the construction of internet worlds. A feed is not so different from a gated community, operating under the rules of homophily and assuming...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...some dark corner of my house, eating potato chips and refreshing my Tumblr feed in the hope that someone will have “liked” my Photoshopped picture of Kanye West in a...
The Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
#mybodymyhome (ii)
...my lips. Touch every part of my being with your fingertips. Explore my soul and take my breath away. With your tenderness possess my heart. Feed me with love....
Dr. Maria Montessori, Feminist
...education in the sense of learning skills like reading, writing, or arithmetic. Montessori viewed the Casa a place to nurture a whole person, one who would learn to feed and...