I'm curious to know how free Snapchat's minority employees feel in their tech startup office to make critiques in situations like these.
When I spoke to her by phone in San Francisco on Sunday night, Sarkeesian said Gamergate is "absolutely" an issue that goes beyond gaming: The harassment is becoming more intense towards women and other marginalized communities, and it seems to be happening more to women in male-dominated fields, and to women who speak out or make critiques.
The quantitative models became more sophisticated than necessary, even esoteric, "in order to demonstrate that the analysts were working hard – and to make critiques harder".
But it is also personal: he has appeared uncomfortable on national security topics, struggled to establish a cohesive set of national security advisers, and made critique after critique that lacks any policy prescriptions that would differentiate him from Obama.
I don't know that you can make huge comparisons to one creative writer making critique versus a leaker and whistleblower.
Social critics from Thoreau to Allan Bloom to the S.D.S. authors of The Port Huron Statement also made critiques about the flatness of bourgeois life, but at least they tried to induce their readers to long for serious things.
It didn't matter whether they were recording pieces of performance art – like Chris Burden having himself filmed being shot in the arm in 1971 – or making critiques of network television, as in some of Richard Serra's video works.
And Kostelic can now make her critique from a position of strength.
He did not make his critique public; rather, he sent a long letter to the Soviet defense minister, Dmitry Yazov.
Not the literacy that helps us read books or write term papers, but the kind of literacy that helps us make or critique the systems we live in….
