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Love Worth Fighting For

By Rob HorningSeptember 30, 2010
More than ever, we now need to think of love as ennobling resistance to what alreadyis, modeling the idea that difficult things are worth the…
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Spontaneity On Demand

By Rob HorningSeptember 2, 2010
Salvador Dalí. A Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936) “Mediating our identity and our experience recapitulates it in a form that can circulate and be…
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children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives

By Rob HorningAugust 14, 2010
It’s easy enough to amass anecdotal evidence of rising internet addiction. The marathon Asian gamers who prefer to starve rather than leave their terminal; the…
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On the Virtues of Ingratitude

By Atossa Araxia AbrahamianJuly 23, 2010
Gratitude hurts our critical capacities by forbidding dissatisfaction with a scale that tilts, albeit by chance, in one’s favor.
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Escapism and Art For Lonely People

By Helena FitzgeraldJuly 22, 2010
On some level, probably the first and most immediate level, all art is fantasy.
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Demoting Beauty

By Rob HorningJuly 17, 2010
Our response to beauty is our heart volunteering us for the gentlest form of domination.
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Power and the Pickup Artist

By Rob HorningJuly 14, 2010
Rather than establish a spontaneous, open-ended and reciprocal relation with another person, the pickup artists want to assure that interpersonal exchanges follow a rigid script that culminates in sex
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And It Felt Like A Kiss: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Specter

By Helena FitzgeraldJuly 2, 2010
Rock and roll has no morals. Of course, that’s much of what is and has always been attractive about it. But maybe there’s something legitimately chilling beyond where lawlessness and rebellion are sexy.
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Orhan Pamuk and The National on Sadness

By Helena FitzgeraldMay 25, 2010
“Now, many years later, I understand that this discontent is the basic trait that turns a person into a writer. Patience and toil are not…
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Lester Bangs and Rock Music As The Eternal High School Girlfriend

By Helena FitzgeraldMay 11, 2010
Did you ever want to kill what weaned you? Well, don’t try too hard. The next generation will not live for no burnout myth and…
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Coming & Crying

By jbernsteinJanuary 18, 2010
An interesting project to be aware of: Coming & Crying. Coming & Crying is an effort by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell to publish…

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