"We can’t say Laurie Penny didn’t warn us. Last week, the journalist complained that she’d “been trying to warn ‘Gender Critical’ feminists for years that their…"

>"Thinking differently about how to design the digital platforms that structure our social lives can help lead us on a journey to improve society and become better _...Read More_

"In long-awaited elections, workers in two US warehouses will decide whether they want union representation at the ecommerce company."

>"The work of Nashville-based artist John Jackson brims with frustration at technology’s disruption of human connection."

"What happens when digital capitalism’s gradual hijacking of the commons tips over to become the only reality we know? Back in the 1960s, Arte Povera formed as a reaction to Minimalism’s technological hubris and the disposable consumer _...Read More_

The only capitalism we have ever known is the one built on violent, racist dispossession and is reliant on the remaking of racialized divisions between people. Perhaps we can conceptualize a capitalism that is not intertwined in these _...Read More_

"Tieu’s script could be interpreted as a dramatized reading of what has of late become resurgent and divisive rhetoric within art discourse."

"Literary journalists rely on tired tropes to hold together the points they make as the themes of essays about one or another of the subjects they decide to write about . They need to have points because their high school English teachers _...Read More_

>"Here's how tech companies use the promise of endless innovation to ward off government regulation."

Though this is from 7-8 years ago and is rly long, it’s an excellent example of what I’ve interpreted “Alt-woke” to mean. It’s poetic and earnest with that perfect balance of lightheartedness and dismay, adeptly mapping irony/cynicism as a _...Read More_

<< When reflecting on the expression of masculinity through dress, the lens through which women see their boyfriends, husbands and lovers is a useful refraction then, and one which illuminates _...Read More_

I think this article opens up a great discussion, though I’m not super into apocalypse-fantasizing and feel like there could have been more of a focus on what’s happening *now.* would love to hear what others think

'Carlo is concerned about his looks; it’s important to him how his ‘outer shell’ – his coat – appears. Decent clothes make it easier to earn money, easier to approach people on a more or less equal level. A clean and undamaged coat turns _...Read More_

>"The “real estate of the future” is plagued by buggy software, empty servers, and huge opportunities for abuse."

this isn’t going to be something that everyone will want to read, but it’s a super thoughtful piece that does a good job of pointing to tons of other material for your own research. Also makes me think of how Jack Whitten would talk about _...Read More_