Ms. America
Lana Del Rey's 'Merica is one with just as many symbols, but it requires far less cognitive dissonance.
No Life Stories
Big Data hopes to liberate us from the work of self-construction and justify mass surveillance in the process
Plantation Neoliberalism
Is an intense fixation on the present simply the best way to make slavery disappear?
Depthless Psychology
Why flatness? And why now?
Once Upon a Dream
Who better than Lana Del Rey to bring Maleficent’s excavation of female evil into the present?
Narrative of Fragments
The modern renaissance of the lyric essay occurs in an age distinguished by increasingly interrupted experience
Stone-Age Nostalgia
The deep history of fashionable forgetting
Destroy All Monsters
The original Godzilla plays out the struggle between two of post-war Japan's major political tendencies: a revolutionary critique of modernity against a victimized anti-historical Japanese nationalism.
Seeing Stars
Schadenfreude and sadism emerge as the real face of celebration.
Trigger for What
Trigger warnings on literature in college courses is not illiberal coddling but a reflection of the false universality of "great books" syllabi
Choose Your Own Adventure
Racialized sexual fantasies imagine desire as an array of exciting ice cream flavors, but the consumer is always assumed to be vanilla.
You Don’t Own Me
Performance collective Chez Deep explores drag performance as both physical and emotional labor
Margot, Not at the Wedding
La Reine Margot recasts the 16th-century queen as a prisoner not of religion but of love—and class
Advance Fragments: Circling the Square
An excerpt from the upcoming publication on the intersection of art and the EuroMaidan: Circling the Square
The Bureaucracy of Us
Even when members of a family know what their bond means to them, they have no idea what it means to the state.
Face Me, I Face You
Queen Elizabeth I went global by pioneering the slave trade