We are caught in a loop, and the museum, tasked with preserving history, is instead watching while history leaks and circles around maddeningly.
An introduction to the new issue of the Full Stop Quarterly.
What Machines Know: Surveillance Anxiety and Digitizing the World
Mass surveillance and predictive policing are all the rage. And in the act of performing identity online, ordinary people help make the world more machine-readable. Why do we play along?
Is the bossless office egalitarian, or does it simply camouflage inequalities and portend the further erosion of organized labor?
Bossnappings are a symbolically potent tactic in the arsenal of labor militancy, especially now that workers are increasingly required to identify with their management.
Like Nas captured the energy of his New York, I wanted to capture the energy of my West Virginia.
The best interviews from the past year.
Sean Stewart (Babylon Falling)
As a little kid all my real life heroes were outlaws, self-styled and otherwise.
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates does not write to blunt edges. He writes so that it might be possible to slice away the protective illusions that obscure the brutal reality of blackness in America.
Bloodletting in Minor Scales – Justin Limoli
The dismissal of “heaviness” from experimental or mainstream quarters alike is an evasion.