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how to stereo

October 7, 2024

Most of film culture has been built around monocular capture and reproduction.  A single camera lens produces a flat image. The flatness of the image has l...

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a thousand authors

March 3, 2024

While writing about the 1979 movie Alien and what it can teach us about extractive capitalism, I noted that movies can be more nuanced, profound and comprehensi...

business/movies & television/power/work

show me

October 16, 2021

i’ll believe all the pretty talk about diversity and inclusion when a pilot episode ends with The Cover Girl’s Show Me. either our history matters o...

business/ideas/journalism/movies & television/power

more money in trolling

February 13, 2021

I made this video for Instagram [in 2019] just over two years ago. It should probably be hosted here as well. Transcript: “what happens when there’s...

business/ideas/language/movies & television/power/work

Queens English

February 8, 2021

From my February 7, 2021 newsletter. Reprinted in full with a few grammatical corrections. “You don’t sound Cuban.” “Where’s your ...

business/journalism/movies & television/power

Junk

June 26, 2019

I grew up when America was first discussing “junk food”: ready-to-eat foods that were filling, and tasty, but neither nutritious nor healthy. I feel like we’ve ...

business/people/power

quasi-public spaces

April 19, 2018

From my Facebook account, July 23, 2015: [note: I saw a man, apparently homeless, using a Starbucks cup to justify his occupying space in an outdoor seating are...

business/people/power/technology

Facebook is made out of…

January 14, 2018

very good critics point out that Facebook is engineered to be addictive. but they seldom recognize that the pleasure being meted out is OTHER PEOPLE. for exampl...

art/business/latin america/power

Pleasure and power

April 18, 2017

Casamigos, Doritos marketing collateral, 2018 A consistent theme in the marketing of Mexico’s grastronomic culture is the erasure of Mexicans. When Mexica...

art/business/movies & television/power

Motherhood and the workplace

February 4, 2017

The movie Arrival (2016) and the movie Alien (1979) are contrasting takes on motherhood and women in the workplace. In Arrival, a successful professional woman ...

business/latin america/power

Legal or illegal, capital or labor

January 15, 2017

“You’ll get beautiful coverage, believe me, and the Mexicans will pay for it.” – Jeet Heer This tweet is comedy because “and the Mexicans will...

business/people/power/technology

Facebook users deserve all their feels.

January 7, 2017

Facebook is software for managing your feelings. It promises to be a tool for strengthening relationships – primarily, as a replacement for email – but it is en...

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keeping the hamsters alive: clickbait and the information market

July 9, 2016

google just served me up the following “news” without knowing my full identity: this appears to be their default offering for an English speaker in ...

business/movies & television/power

Werk

March 22, 2016

A contrast in labor relations: Stud Terkel: Stills from Magic Mike.

business/people/power

Insecurity

March 19, 2016

Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato: Workers with less education are more likely to take jobs with more workplace stress, such as those involving shift work, experiencin...

business/movies & television/people/power

Hollywood

March 1, 2016

From West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein, excerpted by Andrew O’Hagan: I was very young in 1955, when Warner Brothers did Rebel without a Cause ...

business/power

Chronic Underemployment

February 17, 2016

Gabriel Thompson: Six years into the economic recovery, people continue to crisscross the state in search of gigs, putting in three hours of drive time for mayb...

business/people/power/technology

robots and secrets

January 20, 2016

From an overview of consensus by John Cassidy: Why, then, are the markets so disturbed? One possible explanation has to do with trading algorithms, which encour...

business

The ebb and flow of public spaces

July 27, 2015

A slow yielding of public to private spaces led to a tremendous opportunity for Starbucks in the early 1990s: not to sell coffee but to rent public space. To re...

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competition

September 29, 2014

An intrepid researcher has mapped some of the microwave towers being used to conduct high-frequency-trading around the world. HFT requires competitors to use cu...

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