Kristyna Michkova (VUB): YouTube Audiences through the Lenses of the Frankfurt School Theory. Corinne Hui Yun Tan (Melbourne): Lawrence Lessig v Liberation Music Pty Ltd: YouTube's Hand (or Bots) in the Over-Zealous Enforcement of Copyright. Michael Sugarman on the true cost of YouTube's Library of Everything. Audra Schroeder on the accidental poetry of Sad YouTube. The creature and the sovereign: Diego Rossello reviews On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald and The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty by Eric Santner. Stuart Whatley on the nuances of nonbelief: The fact that alleged Chapel Hill shooter Craig Hicks is a professed atheist has exposed troubling contradictions in how the media often covers religion — or, in this case, the lack thereof. The discovery of individuality: Wolfgang Sohst on a short history of human personal identity. Heather Havrilesky on fifty shades of late capitalism. Mark Greif on what’s wrong with public intellectuals. What is the universe? Real physics has some mind-bending answers. Where did time come from, and why does it seem to flow? New theories suggest the big bang was not the beginning, and that we may live in the past of a parallel universe. Curtis Sittenfeld 24 things no one tells you about book publishing. Joseph Stromberg on the forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking". A look at David Carr’s last word on journalism, aimed at students.
