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For the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech movement, the IBM punch card (used by UC students to register for classes) was a key symbol of institutional conformity they were fighting. They

The meme-ification of facial expressions proceeds out of the camera’s discovery of the “optical unconscious” (Benjamin). Photographs capture a substrate of reality beyond conscious meaning. Images of fleeting “lost” moments

There are two senses of the word “witch” that only partly and semi-accidentally overlap. One is “agent of misfortune.” The other is roughly “practitioner of folk magic.” The conflation of

Bhaskar’s tweet on the Romanovs reminded me of this classic Jacobin cover, which was on the first print copy of the magazine I ever saw. It’s perfectly emblematic of the

In recent years there has been a refrain of “when are people going to go out in the streets?” Protest has been treated as the decisive mode of politics, despite

The climate countdown clock taking the symbolic place of the national debt clock reveals the shifts and continuities of elite eschatology. In both, free-floating moral unease (guilt and debt were

The 2011 Portlandia pilot proclaimed: “the dream of the 90s is alive in Portland.” In Portland the End of History was never tainted by war and recession. It was where

Seems like VR has been the "next big thing" for my entire life, its true potential yet to be reached but right around the corner. It's as if it filled

In “The Image,” published 2 yrs after the first televised presidential debates, Daniel Boorstin points out they were modeled on the popular quiz shows of the era. Quiz shows waned,

“abolish the family”=“abolish the incest taboo”I don’t mean that’s what those who advocate it really want, but that in Oedipalized nuclear family societies with truncated kinship networks, “the family” is