Your Friends and Neighbors
Is Anyone Up works like this: You have naked photos of somebody you know.
Mediums of Exchange
Adapted by imp kerr from Drew Struzan’s Return to OZ poster, 1985 I was on a lunch break from the domestic violence support hotline where…
The Myth of Cyberspace
The idea that we could enter a virtual realm once eased the cognitive dissonance brought on by technology. But now it sustains an illusory divide between what we do online and off
Picture Pluperfect
The Facebook profile is not a window on the self. It’s a canvas
Phantom Tollbooths
Expansive and nonsensical intellectual property regimes threaten to fence off digital abundance
The Fog of More
The tech establishment loves transparency but the U.S. classifies more information than ever. Online government transparency initiatives are less about revealing the state than making us more comfortable revealing ourselves
Minor Cords
Escaping the grip of Child Protective Services
The Gloom of the System
The participants in Colombia's student protests came to discover the flawed reality of reality itself.
Get Thee to a University
As the value of higher education starts breaking bad, the unprecedented number of degree-holding women reach a milestone and assume a millstone.
Arms and Legs
Shots fired across the generation gap in an era of indenture.
The Fame Game
Frank Warren of PostSecret and Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen discuss the instability of sudden Internet celebrity.
Look What You Did, You Little Jerk
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and culture's problem with bad mothers
Rootless and Ruthless
Coming of age outside the economy.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Notes on animals and auteurism: The cat and dog cinema of Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir
Working Beauty
In the opening scene of Julia Leigh’s debut film Sleeping Beauty, Lucy (Emily Browning), our beautiful college-student protagonist, serves as a medical test subject. She leans her head back as the doctor slowly threads a tube down her throat, then fills a balloon in her chest with air while she holds the tube in place.
The Future Is Female
In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, women are nowhere and everywhere