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The Real Truth About YouTube’s Obsessive Purity Subculture
There’s something sickly comforting about believing that staying pure will give you power, about the idea that everything will be okay if you follow the rules.
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Black Retribution in Tech: The Audacity to Imagine
“I have cultivated a special relationship with revenge—one that is built on the idea that I and other Black people deserve acknowledgment as creative individuals and equitable access to tools that can nurture our gifts.”
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Popaganda: Fembots
From Metropolis to Westworld, female robots have always played out complicated power dynamics onscreen. While the term “fembots” conjurs up the image of killer mechanical sex-kittens from Austin Powers, cinematic stories about female robots often deal with much... Read more »
Not All Russians: The Ethics of Internet Bots
Is the #botally community following ethics that lessen harm?
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Biopower to the People: Fitness Trackers Are Redefining What It Means to Be a Human Subject
Order has always been a human ideal—has it become a defining category of a worthy life?
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Raw Materials: Will teched-up clothing change fashion's gendered image?
We’re seeing exciting new technologies already designed with men and male agency in mind, codifying norms before they even hit the shelves.
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More Than Our Machines: Aesthetics and Prosthetics in Sci-Fi Film
In the future, you can lose all your limbs and remain enfranchised.
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Backtalk: Google Manifesto & Transphobia Is Not a Joke
This week, exemplifies the question that Frank Ocean’s t-shirt asked: “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic when you could just be quiet?” Dahlia and Amy talk about the terribly misguided memo from a Google employee and the deplorable transphobia on the Breakfast Club. Recently,... Read more »
Body Conscious: Who Gets to Be a Cyborg?
Much of the futuristic sheen of biohacking is washed off when we think of it in terms of footbinding, corsetry, plastic surgery, or even IUDs.
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