No surprise there. You'd think the common need to end a global pandemic would overcome the chase for profits. I guess no. >> Snake eating itself << or something to that end. _...Read More_

>"What makes a strictly utilitarian object luxurious?"

Sandfuture is just another airless scrap of cultural writing, flensed utterly of anything of lasting importance.

>"Consuming other people's personalities as if you know them is a contemporary form of escapism"

The “dissociation” of memespeak is an acknowledgement of the phenomenon’s strategic dimension, sharing a vision of the internet free from compulsory body awareness

"The following excerpt comes from the final chapter of my book Media, New Media, Postmedia, recently published in Italian by Postmediabooks, who kindly gave Rhizome _...Read More_

A way of tackling income segregation or at least ease it? I'm always a bit iffy when I read through solutions that are half way like this, always expecting a more radical approach to housing, one that intentionally respects this _...Read More_

"Amazon is installing high-tech cameras inside supplier-owned delivery vehicles. Workers say the cameras are a shocking invasion of privacy as well as a safety hazard."

>"One family’s bid to escape Afghanistan is emblematic of how the United States is failing to help those who risked _...Read More_

The lack of accountability for organized abductions and torture is not only revealing of a failing international system but also of the hypocrisy at the hearts of the US foreign policy. "After 20 years during which he was routinely _...Read More_

"The next front in the culture wars is climate change, and the battle lines have already been drawn. On one side are the climate _...Read More_