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Read More: #39, reward responsible disobedianceRewarding Disobediance is offering a $250K prize for responsible disobediance: “This idea came after a realization that there’s a widespread frustration from people trying to figure out how can we…
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Read More: #38, the NEA matters, fight for the least-seen to speak truth to powerTwenty years ago, on March 13, 1997, Frank Rich penned an op-ed, “Lesbian Lookout,” in support of the NEA, which was under threat. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), which…
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Read More: #37, size matters; we have to be minimalist“We have to be minimalist. A small event, if we can understand it, reconciles us a little bit with the world.” Agnès Varda In my conversation with Agnès Varda about…
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Read More: #36, history is realInvoluntary immigration is an alternative fact. See More: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Data Base The suppression of the African slave trade to the United State of America, 1638-1870, W.E.B. Du…
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Read More: #35, science is realSee More: junkscience.com InsideClimate News 350.org March for Science, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
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Read More: #34: place matters; re/flecting the border“Last Sunday, just a few meters from Ana Teresa Fernández’s intervention [Erasing the Border (Borrando la Frontera)], Marcos Ramírez, better known as ERRE, staged a performative work titled Re/flecting the…
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Read More: #33: speed matters; there is safety in the slowToday’s internet seeks, supports, and succeeds via virality. The pursuit of virality for media content on the web is understood as a truism and a good, as self-evidently powerful, as…
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Read More: #32, take responsibility for our own acts of lookingLast summer, in “How Do I (Not) Look, Live Feed Video and Viral Black Death,” I wrote: We come to this cultural, political and media onslaught as individuals but, it…
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Read More: #31: look deeper into the migrant experienceAccording to a press release from The New School/Parsons, their show State of Exception/Estado de Excepción “presents traces of the human experience—objects left behind in the desert by undocumented migrants…
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Read More: #30, every single tweak in an algorithm can make a changeThe winner of HackPrinceton 2016 is FiB: “Let’s stop living a lie.” FiB says: “In the current media landscape, control over distribution has become almost as important as the actual…