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booksfromthefuture: Play is (not) frivolous – Masaki Miwa
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In a new interview with Paradoxa, Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz speaks at length with Taryne Jade Taylor about the allure of genre fiction, colonialism disguised as sci-fi, writing, and immigrating to the U.S. at an early age (he refers to it as “a profound fracture of my reality, a temporal and spatial anomaly”). During the…
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Mckenzie Wark: Bartleby is about a certain kind of labor: You can force people to do physical labor, but it’s very hard to get people to do mental labor. They have to be engaged. As someone who has gone to the dark side, who has been a manager for the last year, I really identify…
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Capitalism, casinos and free choice [2014]
mostlysignssomeportents: Tim “Undercover Economist” Harford’s column “Casinos’ worrying knack for consumer manipulation,” takes a skeptical look at business and markets — specifically their reputation for offering a fair trade between buyers and sellers. Inspired by Natasha Dow Schüll’s book Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, a 2012 book on the calculated means by…
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good: When Does Domestic Terrorism Go Unnoticed? When the Victims are Black.
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The fact that colonialism is so central to science-fiction, and that science-fiction is so central to our own pop culture, suggests that the colonial experience remains more tightly bound up with our political life and public culture than we sometimes like to think. Sci-fi, then, doesn’t just demonstrate future possibilities, but future limits—the extent to…
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Don’t wait for permission. If you’re doing creative work for the right reasons, you don’t’ need the validation of others to put yourself out there. That’s what the internet makes possible. Lest we forget, TNI started as a Tumblr. And love other women. The world wants you to find extraordinary women threatening. Undo that training.…
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todoelajo: it must be said that most of our efforts at addressing racism and sexism in higher education are framed as that of access/inclusion. this is hardly news. not only does the notion of ‘inclusion’ not fundamentally alter the frames of who is doing the including, and under what conditions; it also presumes mere adjustment…
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The beauty and mystery of the ethnographer’s quest is to find the unexpected stories that challenge our theories… We go to find the stories we didn’t know we were looking for in the first place. Ruth Behar, “Ethnography and the book that was lost.” Ethnography, 2003 (via actuallyvirtual)
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