Sublime

It is part of a larger set of processes in which everything once considered personal has to be recreated and deployed in the service of adding dollar or prestige value to one’s electronic identities.

Money emerges from uncertainty, capital emerges from money, and uncertainty emerges from capital.

Inside the dense web of distributed networks, it would appear that everything is everywhere-the consequence of a worldview that leaves little room

Exploitation thrives when it comes to the essentials, like housing and food. Most of the 12 million Americans who take out high-interest payday loans do so not to buy luxury items or cover unexpected expenses but to pay the rent or gas bill, buy food, or meet other regular expenses. Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques—from

All social taxonomies are prone to these forces of consolidation and dissolution, assembly and disassembly, because, unlike biological taxonomies, they’re all temporary and contingent—and are often created by opposition. Those who are subject to the same forces, the same powers-that-be, can find themselves grouped together, sometimes to their own

These boundaries, however, should always be tested to see if they are actually still real. It takes conscious acts by individuals to test these edges. DAVID WHYTE

Glenn McDonald,

publicly visible.

nepotistic