Are Trump’s diplomatic blunders, draconian decrees, and late-night Twitter meltdowns the strategic design of a new breed of authoritarianism that thrives on confusion rather than repression or merely a byproduct of his contempt for the norms of conduct? Is his revolving cabinet of cartoon villains and prop-store cadavers a stylized piece of political theater or just a classic case of professional nepotism? Is he a madman or a mastermind? Either way, Trump performs his own incompetence so well that it makes any attempt at parody seem overdetermined to the point of absurdity. In the process, he exposes the impotence and hypocrisy of his liberal critics, unmasking their piety politics as nothing more than compensatory posturing.

verywhere and nowhere,

In a world of ubiquitousmonitoring, there is no space for personal exploration, and no space tochallenge social norms, either. Living in fear, there is no genuine freedom

by the mere threat of leaks

or, at the very least, to refrainfrom work that damages mankind or the environment (a negative right)

The answer, instead, is to acknowledge the two-sidedness, the simultaneity, the inseparabilityof form, meaning, and action, of individual, social, and cultural context, of actual genres andgenre-ness.

Among other queer people, they would readand compose ways of being in opposition to what was available outside these queer spaces.

Stripped of identity, the bastard race teaches aboutthe power of the margins and the importance of a mother like Malinche

Writing is pre-eminently the technology of cyborgs, etched surfaces of thelate twentieth century.

The technologies of visualizationrecall the important cultural practice of hunting with the camera and thedeeply predatory nature of a photographic consciousness

Communications sciences andbiology are constructions of natural-technical objects of knowledge in whichthe difference between machine and organism is thoroughly blurred; mind,body, and tool are on very intimate terms.

One should expect control strategies to concentrate on boundary condi-tions and interfaces, on rates of flow across boundaries - and not on theintegrity of natural objects

. It's not just that 'god' is dead; so is the 'goddess'

And that is an example, I think, of this general idea that the intentions or the spiritual nature of the practitioner was an essential element in chemical reactions, that you needed to be pure of heart or you needed to concentrate really hard in order for the reaction to work.

Hawk (2018) too notes, by way of Ede and Lunsford,“Any attempt to fully adopt the audience’s position becomes pandering”

Concerns about pandering are not new for rhetorical theory. If one attempts to persuade, then one may risk simply telling an audience what theaudience wants to hear in order to achieve a particular aim

As a result, digital writers may view this process as less a matter of making rhetorical choicesthan filling out these procedures. They may decide to view their writing, or other discourse, as a rote input/outputexchange. Digital writers might pander to a perceived algorithm and appeal to whatever is popular by systematicallymanipulating an algorithm (“gaming”).

than extensions (if even that) of what already exists in the U.S

For the hospital system: the new medicine 'without doctor orpatient' that singles out potential sick people and subjects at risk, which in noway attests to individuation - as they say - but substitutes for the individual ornumerical body the code of a 'dividual' material to be controlled

Felix Guattari has imagined a city where one would be ableto leave one's apartment, one's street, one's neighborhood, thanks to one's(dividual) electronic card that raises a given barrier; but the card could just aseasily be rejected on a given day or between certain hours; what counts is notthe barrier but the computer that tracks each person's position - licit or illicit- and effects a universal modulation

Man is no longer manenclosed, but man in debt

Even art has left the spaces of enclosure in order to enterinto the open circuits of the bank

and which use instruments that render visible, record, differentiate a

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tion; it is a way of making power relatifunction in a function, and of making a function functthrough these power rela

es, it is exercised spontaneously and withnoise

volt. '"By every tie I couldevise", said the master of the Panopticon, "my own fate habeen bound up by me with

titudes of each worker, compare the time he takes to perform a task, and if they are paid bythe day, to calculate their

The degree to which algorithmic mistakes replicate the prejudices of actuarial practice generally was revealedwhen researchers in California found that calculations for prisoners’ parole worthiness were in part based on zipcode. In other words, “neighborhood” was weighted more heavily than the behavior, accomplishments, or5rehabilitation of a particular individual

But then, just as quickly, the cameramanposted the video on Instagram, summing up his feelings to the global press as follows: “It’s just insane anddisgusting overall to see that.” “SEE IT,” wrote the . “Watch It,” wrote NBC

The architectureof this technology is through one lens a really simple business model, but it’s also a psychic trap on steroids. Itappeals to human longing to belong, but it cultivates loneliness; we connect in isolation. Algorithmic networks arepowerful but oxymoronic: plural but solitary, intimate but remote

Indeed, what is so striking about these videos and what makesthem particularly interesting in this era of neoliberal empowerment andindividualism is their embrace of the template as the way to negotiate thedemand to be individual. They relay their singular stories in a form thatseems to deny singularity: repeating the narrative style, the note-card form,even the content.

Yet, always open, the slut should be resilient to the exposure and openingof leaks

Thisdesire to contain female sexuality, to uphold the virtue of virginity, nowplays out both in our orifices and our interfaces

The slippage of these twopossible causes for hospitalization articulates how the violence of a leak, ofonline publicity, is perceived to match that of sexual assault

sociologist’s dream: a neat map of verified connections

“friends,”

“Ideally, an intelligent agent takes the best possible action ina situation

It was initially writtenby Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, the former being a Black woman and a collaborator ofBuolamwini and Raji.

Marvel's AIs, FRIDAY (Avengers: Infinity War), and Karen (Spider-Man:Homecoming)

For example, although works prior to Gender shades:Intersectional accuracy disparities in commercial gender classification18 have studied theaccuracy of automated facial analysis tools by using geography as a proxy for race, none hadperformed the analysis by skin type, and none intersectionally—taking into account multiple identities such as gender and skin type. As a duo of darker andlighter skinned Black women in the US, Buolamwini and Gebru understood that race is anunstable social construct across time and space, ha

ew revolutionary dawn of the multitude,but rather the interrelation of material and immaterial labor coalescingaround a neocolonial historical formation.

thanatopolitical

They are neither public ñor prívate property, and they"transcend the equally pernicious political alternative between capitalismand socialism" (xi). Mazzara, Negri and Hardt, and Moulier Boutang allquote the growing number of disputes over copyrights, property rights,patents, and royalties that have emerged lately as evidence of the incapacityof capitalism to endose these new commons and to appropriate the labor ofthe "general intellec

Theseinclude, for instance, tracking consumer preferences and patterns of search,or the enclosure of common knowledges, as a strategic way of accumulatingsymbolic and cultural capital to be sold later under the form of rent (indirectpublicity, taxes of use, etc.).

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and desirability of firee market policies and low-intensity liberal democrac

Niska's consciousness tests begin and Laura struggles to elicit an emotional response from her

But however unluckily it maybefall its unsuspecting victim, its occurrence is, in the under-standing of the law, not chance, but fate showing itself onceagain in its deliberate ambiguity.

For this reason, the first ofthese undertakings is lawmaking but the second anarchistic

And though the police may, in particulars,everywhere appear the same, it cannot finally be denied thattheir spirit is less devastating where they represent, in absolutemonarchy, the power of a ruler in which legislative and execu-tive supremacy are united, than in democracies where theirexistence, elevated by no such relation, bears witness to thegreatest conceivable degeneration of violence

. Its power is formless, like itsnowjiere tangible, all-pervasive, .ghostly presence in the life ofcivilized states.

ed into question, capitaLpunishment has pro-voked more criticism than all others. However superficial thearguments may in most cases have been, their motives wereand are rooted in principle.

Organized labor is,apart from the state, probably today the only legal subject en-titled to exercise violence.

From this maxim it follows that lawsees violence in the hands of individuals as a danger under-mining the legal system. As a danger nullifying legal endsand the legal executive? C

He had to get his bread by the sweat of his brow and hesaid, 'It's a vengeful God. I should never have eaten thatappl

If you follow the `commonsense' dictatesof consciousness you become, effectively, greedy and un-wise — again I use `wisdom' as a word for recognition ofand guidance by a knowledge of the total systemic creature

With improper disturbance of the system, the exponentialcurves appear

We are rapidly, of course, destroying all the natural systemsin the world, the balanced natural systems. We simply makethem unbalanced — but still natural

ary 2024, the Israeli army (IDF) admitted that its soldiers were curating a psychological warfare channel on Telegram called “72 Virgins—Uncensored” that it had created in October 2023. The channel was operated by members of the IDF’s Influencing Department, which usually targets foreign and enemy audiences. The Jerusalem Post reported that the channel’s administrators encouraged followers to share the content “so ‘everyone can see we’re screwing them.’ ” This revelation makes it clear that this type of sharing is a tactic to encourage and normalize the atrocities being carried out by Israel against Palestinians under siege.

Race astechnology reveals how race functions as the “as,”

“low skilled,

“record keeping” to be a synonym for “surveillance.”

The fragmentation of production, whether in the field or the factory, shifts power away from those doing the work to owners who benefit from defining and overseeing a coherent view of workers and the labor process.

the concept of freedom is largely rooted in the contract: the textually stipulated (in)ability for people to come and go, to agree to terms and walk away from them, backed by law and ultimately state violence

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His work stands in direct defiance to calls for a returnto real evidence.

This silence in the archive in combination with therobustness of the fort or barracoon, not as a holding cell or space of confinement but as anepisteme, has for the most part focused the historiography of the slave trade on quantitative

Double-sided tape. And they’re bronze. So that’s a lot of tape

it was exactly. And did it have an effect on those people after? I’m not sure.” Theyare much more about the ephemeral

He draws this memory map for himself — it’sdiagrammed in the book — and at a certain point he realizes that the map cor-responds directly to an etching he had seen. Basically, it’s about how visual im-ages take over one’s memories. I was thinking about that because you were talkingabout the unreliability of memory, and I think it’s interesting that images some-times replace one’s memory. Also, my memories are sort of tied up with readingthe Narcissus myth, and so what I’m writing about in the plaque is being partiallystructured by the structure of that myth

And although several women insisted that their bedrooms and bedside tableswere not particularly lesbian or queer spaces, what became clear throughout ourconversations is that, in fact, these spaces reflect the lesbian or queer women whokeep them.

I was also intrigued by the number of pill bottles and medications thatI discovered, a reminder that each of us has our own struggles with health andwellness

Many women kept lists of daily tasks or journals — although several admit-ted to lapsing in their duty to record their own experiences of daily life.

The bedsidetable also appears to be an aspirational space, where women place their books inthe hope that this might inspire them to invest a few minutes before bed for leisurereading.

Others kept their toys in drawers or in boxes, but it wasclear that the bedside is a sexual space for many of the participants.

Third, the Bedside Table Archives is an intervention into the exceptionalismof established lesbian and gay archives that tend to privilege the unusual or extra-ordinary events, organizations, and people who have contributed to our queer socialhistories.

The archival character of the project is also whatdistinguishes the Bedside Table Archives from Tammy Rae Carland’s Lesbian Bedsphotography series, which also documents the intimate realm of the bedroom butdoes so to achieve an aesthetic purpose and not necessarily an interventionist goal.

Representing realities like these might compromise thefilm’s message that institutions are unhelpful, even hostile, spaces. Butthat complication could be a helpful one, especially if Dunye intendsto encourage future researchers to use those spaces, or to donate theirown papers to archives

hese archives articulate “alternative realities,”in relation to a dominant culture, and by doing so, recognize that “mul-tiple realities or truths [...] share the same social or philosophical space”(115). The multiple realities or truths offered by different archives maycontradict each other, but in doing so, they open events, experiences,and histories to interpretation and investigation that would not be pos-sible otherwise.

Violence must be taken offstage tacticallyin order to produce startling and transformative lines of empathy, butthis empathy is mainly directed toward the pain of the privileged forbeing enslaved by a system of barbarous power in which they weredestined, somehow, to be caug

nstead, feminist ethics overturns dominant assump-tions about the universality of masculinist conceptions of morality and, asarticulated by Gilligan, advocates that we all pay greater attention to care –what it is, who does it, who needs it, how it is distributed and circulated – andthat we place care at the centre of our moral constructions.

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ame, regardless of their relationshipto the act being documented in the record

Negotiations betweenthe GLBTHS and SFPL to share some of their resources and collections demonstrate, however, ongoingdifferences between grassroots and institutional archives even when they are in dialogue with oneanother.

Even therelatively short history (roughly “one hundred years”) of homosexuality as an identity category

f public documentary

"whipping boys" of fairly recent publicdiscourse concerning African-Americans and national policy,

At a time when current criticaldiscourses appear to compel us more and more decidedly toward gender "undecidability," itwould appear reactionary, if not dumb, to insist on the integrity of female/male gender.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan's celebrated "Report" of the late sixties, the "Negro Family" has noFather to speak of- his Name, his Law, his Symbolic function mark the impressive missingagencies in the essential life of the black community, the "Report" maintains, and it is, sur-prisingly, the fault of the Daughter, or the female line. This stunning reversal of the castrationthematic, displacing the Name and the Law of the Father to the territory of the Mother andDaughter, becomes an aspect of the African-American female's misnaming

Sentimentality, unlike other revolution-ary rhetorics, is after all the only vehicle for social change that neitherproduces more pain nor requires much courage

The desire for unconflictedness mightvery well motivate the sacrifice of surprising ideas to the norms of theworld against which this rhetoric is being deployed. What, if anything,then, can be built from the very different knowledge/experience ofsubaltern pain? What can memory do to create conditions for freedomand justice without reconfirming the terms of ordinary subordination

decolonization of the mind through the lens of language.

When postcards of cross-dressed people are included in a sexuality collection, isthere a presumption that cross-dressing can or should be treated as a sexual identity?Does the HSC imbue these postcards with specific evidentiary value, as objects thatare “document[ing] historical shifts in the social construction of sexuality,” whenthey may have more relevance for other historical phenomena?

A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannotbe said to know that they exist, though he may have cut many tons of them, littered hisstables with them, and fed them to his cattle for years

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