In capitalism’s inverted world, scarcity grows on trees while resources are blithely wasted

The distance between Juzo Itami's Tampopo and David Chang's Lucky Peach illustrates how far American food culture has come since the movie was first released

For 19th century culinary expert Juliet Corson, radical economics began at home

We come, then, to the secret meaning of the secessionist petitions: They evince not a rejection of, but a desperation for, an intimate union with the state.

How does a religion centered on holy materiality adapt to the virtual?

Despite the history of socially sanctioned feasts and fasts, we're quick to pathologize women who eat inconsistently. Why do women need a good reason to devour?

China Central Television is the most important television network you’ve never heard of, but not for long...

Aristocratic gossip has always been at odds with the absolute discretion expected of the ruling class

On at least the third death of Salvagepunk, and with it we notice that we’re not alone

The metaphor of microfame and the structure of feeling of social-media use

The last role of a child star is always collapse

Sherman Alexie trades the stoic Indian stereotype for another, but do his jokes tickle or unsettle?

A report from Madrid's 14 November general strike

Transparency as aesthetic feature, transparency as disposition, transparency as force

Two developments of the past few years call for the re-opening this discussion of the relationship between feminist politics and the referentiality of language: the feminist blogosphere and the lyrics of Taylor Swift.

MTV’s Teen Mom presents teen motherhood not as a threat to the normal structures of everyday life, but as our new social reality. What it doesn’t get to is that this is a good thing