The New Yorker - 16.03.2020

THE NEW YORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 39 of China. In response to the Senator’s pressure, Claborne, the head of the China program, rece ...

40 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 given up the opportunity for social- security benefits in order to work for the American agen ...

THE NEW YORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 41 with closed systems. In the Washington Examiner, a conservative magazine, Tom Rogan celebra ...

42 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 PERSONAL HISTORY M y grandfather worked four jobs. He was a fireman, a handyman, a substitute ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 43 anything waiting for us in the outer boroughs. It was like a slightly more grown-up version of ...

44 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 Is there anything fashion can do to counter the erosion of public anonymity? ANNALS OF TECHNO ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 45 to confuse the algorithms that control surveillance systems: the cloak’s de- signer was an algo ...

“I think we just have time for one more quick question.” C.V.—are removed along the way, as pixels are distilled into features t ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 47 fact that we have so many law enforce- ment agencies that are not complying with state law, inc ...

works,” Goldstein said. Researchers can’t understand exactly how the machine sees. “These are very complicated sys- tems,” he sa ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 49 the form of passport and driver’s-license photos, and mug shots—the only large collections of f ...

50 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 download symmetry-distorting looks from Harvey’s Web site, though he said that they probably ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 51 “Back to work, boys. Those mysteries of the Trinity aren’t going to grapple with themselves.” • ...

52 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 Jordan Wolfson is best known for his interactive animatronic sculptures: uncanny, I n a recen ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 53 not-quite-human figures that act out the disorientation and the harshness of the Internet age. ...

54 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 Zwirner told me. “If you’re annoyed, you’re not indifferent. The work ma­ nipulates me, so I’ ...

pocrisies in American culture have be- come contested territory in the arts. The Internet offers an endless variety of images, f ...

56 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 high-end design stores selling chil- dren’s furniture and expensive bath- room appliances. By ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 57 the Ukrainian Institute after the open- ing. “I’m sure the dinner cost as much as we sold the a ...

58 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 16, 2020 posted on Instagram, “I’m at the gym listening to Cat Stevens and I’m feel- ing emotion and w ...