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Articles by Emma Slack-Jørgensen
Low-Paid Industries Rely on Gig Workers. Are They Actually Employees?
Food delivery driver in traffic | Tricky_Shark / Shutterstock Ask any organizer and you’ll hear how hard it is to reach gig workers. These workers typically lack a physical place of work or regular schedule (though many work all the time), and their work is poorly measured in Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics datasets. The gig workers themselves agree this is a problem.
A New Media Artist from Tehran at The New School
“Untitled” (2024) | Zohreh Zadbood / Courtesy of the artist Zohreh Zadbood is a writer, photographer, and multimedia storyteller. Born in Iran but currently living in New York City, she’s someone who notices things that other people don’t, like the intricate design of floor tiles and ceiling beams, bathed in wayward light, or a brief expression of intimacy between strangers on the street. An average-looking plant on a windowsill, in the eye of Zadbood’s camera, possesses a secret, wild ferocity.
Testing the Waters in Gotham
Etching of the Croton aqueduct, New York | Samuel Hollyers / CC BY 4.0 DEED Some bakers claim that if there’s one thing more New York than a bagel, it’s the water used to make that bagel. In fact, NYC water has little calcium and is slightly alkaline, two processes that do not “strengthen the gluten in the dough” and slow down “the activity of the yeast.” Yet even the Department of Environmental Protection has embraced the myth, boasting in 2018 subway posters, “Yeah, it’s the water.
What Are We to Make of Lars von Trier?
Image Credit: Lars Von Trier, The Idiots (1997) Lars von Trier, a luminary of Danish cinema, has left an incredible and arguably controversial mark on global cinema. First known for his Europa trilogy—The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa—in which characters roam through a dreamlike Europe full of longing and darkness, von Trier has expanded his work far beyond Europe.
How Mary Mattingly’s Floating Barge Tackled Food Deserts in New York City
Swale, docked at Concrete Plant Park, carries a forest of free-to-forage fresh produce on its back. Photo credit: Flickr/Inhabitat In 2016, on one of the hottest Saturdays of the summer, a barge was docked at a promenade just over a mile up the Bronx River from Hunts Point—one of the biggest food deserts in the United States. From afar, the barge, parked in Concrete Plant Park, looked inconspicuous, like an old rusted ship.
The 21st Century Flare Gun: How Technology is Transforming Disaster Relief
With an exponential growth in the occurrence of natural disasters, punctuated by this month’s California Wildfires, the need for advancement in disaster relief is stronger than ever. Luckily, there is growing optimism amongst experts, in the ability of ever-advancing technology to tackle such drastic challenges.
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