urbanscale + bodypolitique 43
The Register: Reverse-engineering artist busts face detection tech
april 2010 by Urbanscale
How to defeat facial pattern recognition with makeup.
surveillance
securitystate
bodypolitique
wearethenewdazzleships
april 2010 by Urbanscale
NYT: South Koreans Struggle With Race
november 2009 by Urbanscale
Well, yes. I do have to say, though, that the only time I've ever faced any kind of hostility in Korea was when I was acting irresponsibly. Of course, I'm largely moving in some pretty privileged circles, but we take public transit all the time and have never had a problem.
korea
bodypolitique
kultur
language
daehanminguk
november 2009 by Urbanscale
Relevant History: Happy 30th, Ellen Ripley
october 2009 by Urbanscale
"Alien is a rape movie with male victims," explains David McIntee, author of the Alien study Beautiful Monsters. "It is a film that plays, very deliberately, with male fears of female reproduction."
bodypolitique
sf
film
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Jim Mielke: Digital Tattoo Interface
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Like you didn't see this one coming. A provocation, but only just.
interface
everyware
ubicomp
tattoo
bodypolitique
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Book Review: The Bathroom
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Oh come on, Kira haters: how can you deny that this sounds AWESUM? I LOL'd three times even reading the review.
books
alexanderkira
hygiene
bodypolitique
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Unbranded: An interview with Hank Willis Thomas
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Via Chris Palmieri.
art
branding
race
bodypolitique
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Wikipedia: r/K selection theory
february 2009 by Urbanscale
Watts uses these tropes over and over again, generally as a (cynical and defeated?) way to describe flirting, banter and sexual display in social settings.
ecosystems
strategy
bodypolitique
peterwatts
february 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: Germany Abuzz at Racy Novel of Sex and Hygiene
june 2008 by Urbanscale
"A provocative female rapper in Germany, Lady Bitch Ray, who runs her own independent label, Vagina Style Records, grabbed headlines when she accused Ms. Roche of stealing her explicit form of empowering raunch."
bodypolitique
germany
commendedasstronglyvaginal
june 2008 by Urbanscale
Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose
june 2008 by Urbanscale
If only J.G. Ballard were alive to see this day. Oh, wait, he is...
fun
gobarackgo
bodypolitique
june 2008 by Urbanscale
Practically Lactating
may 2008 by Urbanscale
Hullabaloo's digby utterly nails the underlying premise of Republican attacks.
bodypolitique
gender
politics
fear
may 2008 by Urbanscale
MetaFilter: Abortion as Art
april 2008 by Urbanscale
Jack Womack called it eighteen years ago.
art
bodypolitique
jackwomack
april 2008 by Urbanscale
Blackbeltjones/Work: Fortress of Amplitude
august 2007 by Urbanscale
"Imagine designing a system, a city - of engineered environments *and inhabitants*." Not so crazy about being an engineered anything, but sure does look rad.
architecture
sidewalking
parkour
bodypolitique
urbanism
august 2007 by Urbanscale
PLoS Medicine: HIV Denial in the Internet Era
august 2007 by Urbanscale
V. cogent piece on the psychology and tactics of diehard HIV deniers. Amazing, now, to think that Celia Farber was ever a friend - as well as painful.
medicine
science
bodypolitique
bodies
august 2007 by Urbanscale
Reuters: Japan's lonely hearts turn to dolls for sex, company
july 2007 by Urbanscale
Not sure a few asocial dudes make a trend. And it's far from a Japan-only thing - haven't they ever heard of Real Dolls? Nevertheless, watch out if these go animatronic. Called that a long time ago.
japan
bodypolitique
interestingtimes
july 2007 by Urbanscale
Structure of Aesthetascs in Selected Marine and Terrestrial Decapods: Chemoreceptor Morphology and Environment
january 2007 by Urbanscale
Of time and thin-walled chemosensory pegs
bodypolitique
art
offshore
january 2007 by Urbanscale
Public Shaming of Prostitutes Misfires in China - washingtonpost.com
december 2006 by Urbanscale
My god, it's like an argument out of "Discipline and Punish" come to life...
china
ethics
sexindustry
foucault
bodypolitique
kultur
law
december 2006 by Urbanscale
Demimonde
november 2006 by Urbanscale
To all appearances, anyway, a superpremium international escort service (!) whose associates all seem to blog fairly literately. Either a fantastic put-on, or a business model whose time has come. (And come again?)
bodypolitique
branding
november 2006 by Urbanscale
Gawker: New York City Subway Smell Map
september 2006 by Urbanscale
The Sense of the City!
(nyc)
maps
bodypolitique
september 2006 by Urbanscale
Connecticut Bob: "Lieberman vs. the Day After Pill"
may 2006 by Urbanscale
Using online maps to make a pungent (but sadly necessary) political point. Oh, and: fuck Joe Lieberman in the eye.
maps
bodypolitique
may 2006 by Urbanscale
The Korea Times: Ladies of the 1950s Nights
march 2006 by Urbanscale
History of Korean prostitution
daehanminguk
bodypolitique
march 2006 by Urbanscale
Pam Noles: Shame
february 2006 by Urbanscale
Race and color, in written sf and its voyage to the silver screen
bodypolitique
ethics
publishing
sf
february 2006 by Urbanscale
A Piece Of Blue Sky
june 2005 by Urbanscale
Reasonably complete reference on Scientology
bad
bodypolitique
june 2005 by Urbanscale
English Cut
march 2005 by Urbanscale
Notes of a bespoke Savile Row tailor, fascinating
fashion
bodypolitique
craft
personal
march 2005 by Urbanscale
Salon.com Life | Is it hip to snip?
february 2005 by Urbanscale
Vasectomies for nonparous men
tothinkabout
personal
bodypolitique
february 2005 by Urbanscale
NEJM: Caring for the Wounded in Iraq
december 2004 by Urbanscale
New England Journal of Medicine photo essay, quite graphic
bodypolitique
december 2004 by Urbanscale
Bizarre reactionary screed on Kinsey and his methodology
november 2004 by Urbanscale
"Pimps, pedophiles, pederasts, rapists...and God knows what other categories of unearthly human flotsam"
bad
bodypolitique
gender
november 2004 by Urbanscale
India's first 'vanishing twin' born in Bengal hospital
october 2004 by Urbanscale
"Foetus papiricus"?
bodypolitique
october 2004 by Urbanscale
Atlas of genital malformations
october 2004 by Urbanscale
WARNING: not for the faint of heart, almost certainly NSFW!
bodypolitique
gender
october 2004 by Urbanscale
Martha Nussbaum: Body of the nation
october 2004 by Urbanscale
Why Gujarati women were mutilated
bodypolitique
october 2004 by Urbanscale
related tags
(nyc) ⊕ 1970s ⊕ alexanderkira ⊕ architecture ⊕ art ⊕ baadermeinhof ⊕ bad ⊕ bioscience ⊕ bodies ⊕ bodypolitique ⊖ books ⊕ branding ⊕ china ⊕ commendedasstronglyvaginal ⊕ craft ⊕ daehanminguk ⊕ design ⊕ ecosystems ⊕ emergingmarkets ⊕ epidemiology ⊕ ethics ⊕ everyware ⊕ evolution ⊕ fashion ⊕ fear ⊕ film ⊕ foucault ⊕ fun ⊕ gender ⊕ germany ⊕ gobarackgo ⊕ guerrillawarfare ⊕ history ⊕ humanfactors ⊕ hygiene ⊕ illegal ⊕ interestingtimes ⊕ interface ⊕ jackwomack ⊕ japan ⊕ korea ⊕ kultur ⊕ language ⊕ law ⊕ maps ⊕ marketing ⊕ media ⊕ medicine ⊕ offshore ⊕ pandemic? ⊕ parkour ⊕ personal ⊕ peterwatts ⊕ politics ⊕ pr0n ⊕ publishing ⊕ race ⊕ science ⊕ securitystate ⊕ sexindustry ⊕ sf ⊕ shit ⊕ sidewalking ⊕ strategy ⊕ surveillance ⊕ swineflu ⊕ tattoo ⊕ time ⊕ tothinkabout ⊕ ubicomp ⊕ ubiq ⊕ urbanism ⊕ wearethenewdazzleships ⊕ yes ⊕Copy this bookmark: