Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...
#NotAllPublic, Heartburn, Twitter
...the other hand, the decision about whether or not to treat someone’s twitter feed as fair game is more complicated, something that cannot so easily be incorporated into self-righteous assertions...
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...my RSS feed. And then, I shrugged. Apathy doesn’t seem like the greatest reason to tune out of something that, intellectually and politically speaking, enrages me—or at least should...
The General Store of Yore
...molasses, old onions and potatoes, poultry feed, gun oil, rubber boots, calico, dried fish, coffee, and 'kept' eggs." (By "'kept' eggs" Carson means "eggs that should have been shipped off...
Don DeLillo Did 9/11
...II his protagonist — a reclusive novelist — gives voice to fear that the medium is going out of fashion: The novel used to feed our search for meaning…. But...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.31.13
...is. (via Caitlin) Trolled: "Don't feed the trolls" is an oft-heard admonition (one I usually follow myself) 'round the internets—particularly when it comes to trolls who bait women by arguing...
Violence Is Mine
...at its margins or, to use a more appropriate metaphor, in its feed. This fuels the slippage between everyday activity and symbolic violence that characters in digital works undergo —...
Signs of ephemerality
...other users exhibiting similar behavior patterns) but also make it plain that all the archived information about us feed directly into our efforts to capitalize on our sociality—to turn our...
Oculus Birth
...experience." Figure 5: The live feed. Figure 6: The mother experiences the birth of her child from the child's perspective. Figure 7: Crowning. Figure 9: "Happy Birthday." Figure 10: The...
Propositions for Twenty Unmade Works of Art
...feed on them for several weeks Photograph the new maps 15 Make a work based on the hazards of your job Be specific and unsparing 16 On the night of...
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...audience knows when each joke ends.” The effect is a synthetic montage, with jumps between emotions and characters whose emotional whiplash resembles a social media feed (lesser comics just read...
Bleak House
...if father or son found work, he often couldn't wring enough earnings from that work to feed, clothe and shelter his family. "In some counties," a Select Committee on Labourer's...
Northern Exposure
...proverb Codfish covered thousands of acres, enough to feed an army. "A piscatorial paradise!," as Caton himself remarked. But when he sat down to his first meal aboard that Norwegian...
Information inundation and social deskilling
...didn't blame themselves. When I get the sense I am scrambling to keep up with my Google Reader feed or all the links flowing through on Twitter, I get overwhelmed...