comfort vlog: the lizzie bennett diaries and the taming of digital media

Spoiler alert: the following article discusses plot points from both Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and the Lizzie Bennett Diaries by Hank Green and Bernie Su. It is a truth universally acknowledged that an emerging medium in possession of

weaponized information, distributed

For anyone following the saga of Defense Distributed and their mission to create a 3D printable gun, that the US government has stepped in and demanded that the designs be taken offline is not a huge surprise. The Liberator, as

moving at the slow speed of collected images

It begins with what appear to be clay. As you scroll down Dina Kelberman’s Tumblr, named I’m Google, that clay turns to dough, which turns to clouds of sand, which turns to clouds of chemicals, which turns to plastic fencing.

borges and bots

In the beginning, the Neanderthal man discovered that he could mix animal fat, earth minerals, and pigments—from soil, rock, and plants—and bind it all together with egg to have the first form of paint. He took pains to fill the

elsewhere on the internet: 05/04/2013

(less or) #momelaninmoproblems crossings: undone presents, pyrrhic futures—”The browning of America isn’t simply about color but it’s also about the creation of a “beige” class. “Mixed-race” is race reinvented and race anew, suggesting an identifiable body that is less threatening

network as performance art

Performance art finds its art in the social arena. It is built from the same mechanisms that led Judith Butler to identify gender as a performance; those constructions that cause us to treat any social event to be a performance,

theorizing the web, irl

Two weekends ago, I was lucky enough to take part in the third annual Theorizing the Web Conference. You can watch my presentation here. (It begins at 57:28, but I would recommend watching the whole panel.) At the end of