Abraham Riesman
Cats on Parade: Did the Ca$hcats.biz Gallery Show Work?
"This is a .biz site, I remind you," Will Zweigart yelled last night over a pounding, over-modulated Kanye West track. "It's not .org! Tonight is about .biz!" Zweigart wasn't angry, but he seemed slightly -- _very_ slightly -- indignant. He was...
If You Are Pro-Batman You Are Anti-Gun
“I made a very solemn vow about firearms,” Bruce Wayne said in 2009, as he approached the evil god who would go on to kill him. That was the eighth-to-last sentence he ever spoke.
The Internet Is Not the Web
You know how England is in the United Kingdom, but the United Kingdom isn’t England, even though people often slip up and act like they’re the same thing? The internet and the world wide web are kind of like that. They’re not the same thing.
How Close Is America to a Closed Internet?
Three years after Facebook-friendly dissidents took to the streets of Tehran and made techno-optimists giddy about the Internet's liberating potential, things have gotten bleak. Once again, the mullahs are taking on democracy-minded netizens -- but...
The Web Is Not the Internet (You're Probably Getting That Wrong)
The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing.
Crossdressing, Compression, and Colliders: 'The First Photo on the Web'
In short, photo-uploading was born with some original sins that have never quite washed away.
Cats, Cocaine, and Currency: Inside the World of Ca$hcats.biz
"I got a couple of New Year's Eve photos that were way off the charts. They'd probably give PETA a heart attack," Will Zweigart recalls. "Literally just like, huge lines of coke and the cat's near them with bottles of champagne in the background...
Bombers in Hollywood: The Price of Military Tech Assistance in Movies
If the most powerful armed force in history isn’t winning in reality, it certainly is on the big screen. And like so many problematic aspects of late capitalism, the military-Hollywood complex has a grimly understandable logic. For example, consider...