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Exclusive: Feds Regularly Monitored Black Lives Matter Since Ferguson
Exclusive: Feds Regularly Monitored Black Lives Matter Since Ferguson brooklynwaste: iheartnella-blog: stfueverything: So they have time to track activists who speak out against injustices, but apparently don’t have time to take care of said injustices. Reminder: Activism is not a crime. Killing people is. Reminder they did this in the 60 s as well Cointelpro was…
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To Game Deliberately
To Game Deliberately “In Walden, Fullerton and her team are creating an environment starkly different from the fantasy worlds we ordinarily associate with games. I have to recalibrate my expectations even to take in this demo: There’s no opening disaster, no adrenaline rush, no emergencies, and no explosions. You can’t annihilate your enemies, because there…
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THINKMEXICAN
THINKMEXICAN thinkmexican: Before Latino and Hispanic, there was Mestizo. All created by colonizers to have us hate ourselves. This essay by Native American scholar Jack Forbes is still relevant several decades after it was first published. It is a must read for any Mexican seeking to understand how identity labels are constructed, and how they are…
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thinkmexican: Maya Ball Game Kept Alive by National Tournament A team from the Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, won Mexico’s first national Maya ball game tournament held this past week at the Kukulcan Sports Complex in Mérida, Yucatán. They will be representing Mexico against teams from Belize and Guatemala at the first international tournament of “Pok Ta…
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BB: Does maker culture, and its mass-market mirror of “artisanal” production, have any shared roots with the SI’s emphasis on producing highly-designed, limited-run free journals and books? MW: Yes and no. One wouldn’t want to be part of this whole disruptive technology language, which is pure California ideology [Ed. – “The Californian Ideology” was a…
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Geert Lovink: Where in your biography would you trace the origins of speculative thought? Kodwo Eshun: One of the key inputs is McLuhan. There is an interview he gave in 1968 called “Hot and Cool”. Here I realized that McLuhan had anticipated my project. He was saying that the extraction of concepts from any field…
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In the contemporary science-fiction scene, [acclaimed author Samuel R.] Delany’s race and sexuality do not set him apart as starkly as they once did. I suggested to him that it was particularly disappointing to see the kind of division represented by the Sad Puppies movement within a culture where marginalized people have often found acceptance.…
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As someone who trained and currently still operates as a ‘craftsperson’, debates around manufacturing processes and technological de-skilling became very boring, very quickly. I studied at a well-known Art and Design institution, where the first students to have access to rapid prototyping facilities were within the School of Applied Arts and not on a course…