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The Internet of Things and the rise of planetary computerization: How environmental sensing technologies multiply rather than consolidate versions of the planet.
BY JENNIFER GABRYS Reader in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London Planetary computerization—and the making of a computational planet—are ...
Disagreement abounds about the best way to serve deaf children.
LAURA MAULDIN Assistant professor of human development/family studies and women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut A ...
On freegans, pre-peeled oranges, and ethical consumer ‘Whack-A-Mole’
Photo courtesy of the author. BY ALEX V. BARNARD Food justice activist and doctoral candidate in sociology at the University o ...
A quiet life, a remarkable influence: On Bob Dylan’s English teacher, B.J. Rolfzen
Looking ahead to this weekend's Nobel prize ceremony, in which Bob Dylan, the 2016 laureate in literature, will likely not attend but will provide a ...
Jack Zipes: "Fairy tales evolve and spread in strange ways."
BY JACK ZIPES University of Minnesota I first came across Pyotr Yershov’s fairy-tale poem, The Little Humpbacked Horse, when I was preparing my fa ...
Wildflowers Series #5: "All of it magical."
Churchill Greywacke and Mountain Avens at Cape Merry in Churchill, Manitoba. All photography by Kelly Povo. BY PHYLLIS ROOT AND KELLY POVO Wh ...
On the vengeance of a divided country, 1992 and 2016
BY LYNN MIE ITAGAKI Associate professor, The Ohio State University Violence in the Middle East. Upheavals in Europe. Anxieties about American declin ...
How tourism is deeply implicated in the antagonistic global structures that lead to war.
BY DEBBIE LISLE School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast After the emergence of organized mass tourism ...
The global implications of RNC support for gay “conversion therapy”
BY TOM WAIDZUNAS Assistant professor of sociology at Temple University Last week, police in Uganda raided an LGBT pride event . Witnesses described ...
Aliens, monsters, and revolution in the Dark Deleuze
BY ANDREW CULP Visiting assistant professor of emerging media and communication at the University of Texas at Dallas French philosopher Gilles Deleu ...