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unregulated territories of failure, loss, and unbecoming, must make a long detour around disciplines and ordinary ways of thinking. Let me explain how universities (and by implication high schools) squash rather than promote quirky and original thought. Disciplinarity, as defined by Foucault (1995), is a technique of modern power: it depends upon a
... See moreJack Halberstam • The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
Postings can be discovered in isolation and out of context.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Maintainers simply don’t have the energy to onboard every person who shows passing interest.
Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
when the cost (in time and energy) of communicating a specific kind of user need to the manufacturer is high, it often makes more sense for users to modify products on their own than to attempt to convince manufacturers to do so.