The quest for “universals of communication” ought to make us shudder – Gilles Deleuze (qtd in Galloway and Thacker, 23) What universally communicative method could provide a better survey of the “manifest image” of the human face than Facebook? A search through the expansive territories of “face” gleans a uniform notion of expression embodying the Read More
I first found out about Virtual Shtetl while sitting in the Warsaw Jewish Community boardroom overlooking the city’s central Pałac Kultury. I was going on Birthright—a free trip to Israel for young Jews of the diaspora—with a Polish group (the Canadian division of Birthright told me that I wasn’t Jewish enough to go, but that’s a Read More
Probe, or Rogue Suicide-Bomber Probe Droid? (Is that a fact?) In view of our reading of Latour’s rearticulation of the assumptions informing the concepts of “facts” and “values” into new terms that recognize the processual cyclicity of institutionalizing always-debatable uncertainties into useful certainties, and in view of Alice Munro’s having just been awarded the Nobel Read More