elsewhere on the internet 04/02/13
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#momelaninmoproblems
Was early colour film stock inherently racist? South Asian stories from Californian streets—“The irony is that we know every desi parent has an opinion on politics but we never hear about their own struggles.” Immigration: Romanian or Bulgarian? You won’t like it here Many Major Theaters Believe in Color Blind Casting (Except When It Comes to People of Color) Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital—”In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory … He demonstrates that it is possible to affirm a universalizing theory without succumbing to Eurocentrism or reductionism. consumption
The Japanese talking fork—”The EsTheremine contains a micro-controller, a speaker, an amplifier, and a battery within its handle, and generates any one of a variety of sounds depending on the type of food being eaten. In a completely weird show of sentience, this fork produces sounds almost similar to the material being eaten, such as a chicken’s cluck when the user is pecking at a chicken nugget.” How cutlery—forks in the west, chopsticks in china 900 years prior—made us develop overbites. Also, utensil-cyborgism. A delightful look at empire, confectionary and other Turkish delights—”Işin suggests 1923 as a watershed in the decline of sweets and desserts, for this was when the sultanate was abolished and Turkey began to turn away from the old Ottoman ways of doing things. Ataturk’s suppression of the dervish orders in 1925 must also have adversely affected the fortunes of several puddings, as food of all sorts played a great role in the rituals and poetry of the Bektashis and the Mevlevis.” The rhino horn crisis and the darknet—”Rhino horn was once sold as a snake oil cancer cure, with customers basically fed false hope and swindled. But horn use has recently become popular among Vietnam’s nouveau riche and political elite as a party drug mixed with wine, or ground up and mixed into a tincture as a hangover cure.” bodies
What Does It Mean to Be Comfortable?—culture, gender, and building temperature—“In spring, it’s socially expected that women will wear thinner blouses, skirts, open-toed shoes,” Mazur-Stommen says. “But the building temperature is set for men, who are assumed to be wearing long-sleeved shirts and closed-toed shoes year-round. If everyone just dressed appropriately for the weather, we wouldn’t have to heat or cool the building as much.” How to be a person in the age of autoimmunity Wedding rings made of bone and skin Are Brazilian waxes making pubic lice extinct? Gold pills ($425)—”Analogous to our culture’s obsession with luxury and consumption, these 24K gold leaf capsules turn your innermost parts into chambers of wealth. Consume and digest.” Father hires online assassins to ‘kill off’ son’s game avatars #botiliciousness
Drone City—”Ever since Napoleon entered Egypt, ‘Westerners” have found the ‘Eastern’ city impenetrable. My goal was to armor Shura city in Orientalism and to turn the empire’s strongest weapons: technology, reorder, and arrogance, against themselves. It is time for the Bantustans to protect themselves against outside interference, to say ‘don’t call us, we’ll call you.’” Robots dancing to Gangham Style: other
Scientists see insect outbreaks from space I could pee on this and other poems by cats Could Good Type Design Promote Literacy In The Middle East?—interesting look at typography, readability, and the Arabic script. Many of these links via Chapati Mystery and Next Nature, both of which are fantastic and well worth a visit.
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