There is no longer anywhere “off the grid;” you are always on someone’s grid, and you are never far from someone’s battlefield

When I wrote this essay a year ago, there weren’t any literal Nazis in Breaking Bad and the show was about drugs. Neither of those things are true now...

The appeal of a murder is knowing that it has happened to someone else

Fashion as an industry suffers from the same authenticity and credibility crises as punk, and both have sought remedies in the same fascistic tropes

Art’s function is to be functionless, to refuse to serve the structuring of hierarchies

What it's like when your coworkers outgrow you every year

When it comes to Fashion Week, the key to knowing what's cool is not knowing anything

We know that fashion shows are overwhelmingly white. What about virtual fashion shows?

Author and grouchy old man Jonathan Franzen used Karl Kraus to inspire his latest technophobe polemic. But what if he had turned to I Love Dick author Chris Kraus instead? On the Internet, anything is possible.

The ideal of authenticity established a boundary between the self and a complete surrender to capitalism; fashion bloggers live on both sides of the border

It’s hard to believe in Tampa’s predatory protagonist not because she’s too sexual, but because she’s exclusively sexual

With high theory and unstable irony, Not Vogue strives to liberate us from the seductions of corporatized fashion

The presumed generic whiteness of the mainstream U.S. audience means that white consumers decide not only what blackness is but also what they want out of it

Is the groundbreaking Crossley ID Guide: Raptors a step forward for birders, or a late-capitalist monstrosity?