Cleaning Up
...that makes sense of time and space, future and past. Writing is no different, a professional mirage built on the promise of doing something materially unnecessary. In the same way...
Emotional Work and Cultural Capital à Deux
...seems less distasteful to “use” beauty in personal relationships than in professional ones. In the same way, it’s easier for me to look at my own “emotional work” within intimacies...
Drone-Court Advantage
...With all the attacks on his leadership from the professional left, it’s all too easy to forget that Barack Obama is by far the most liberal president in American...
Gymnastics, Ideal Girls, and the Signal of Makeup
...incredible athletic power of American gymnasts, though. It reinforces their girlish, bubbly image. This piece on gold-medal-winning shot putter Michelle Carter demonstrates that: “For a couple of years, being professional,...
Using Life: Instructions for Play
...translation more inventive than the linguistic plays of professional interpreters, but that they also offer models for those contemplating solidarity in a manner suggested by the playful work itself....
On Hurricanes and Beauty
...in parts of the city that have lost power—you can take away our power but you can't take away our polish!) In any case, the Professional Beauty Association has a...
Lies and Videotape
...male instructors, intermittently explores nature, and talks about bonding with professional negroes whose highest possible aspiration was a job at the post office. What the accumulation of these moments provides...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 67: Chemistry
We must name the monsters within, and claim the monstrosities we have had a hand in creating.
Love Bites
...to force the tooth's roots into "a flattened piece of platinum wire" will be necessary. On this tricky procedure depend not only a young lady's fine looks but his professional...
Vernacular Criticism w/ Brian Droitcour @ New Museum 10/12
...Writer and critic Brian Droitcour presents “Vernacular Criticism,” a talk that looks to writing about art outside the established channels of professional media as a potential source of ideas...
Beauty Didn't Birth the Beast
...any sort of parallel between a woman's experiences or attitude and how conventionally attractive she was. Asking a professional beauty about her experiences as a model is one thing, but...
The Open Secret
...no room for inaction, though I had no prior relation or interest in his professional pursuits, nor knew her personally. With her blessing I contacted journalist John Cook who investigated...
"Sharing" Economy and Self-Exploitation
...is a ride is a ride), and champion amateurs in the name of disruption. This undercuts any advantage to being highly skilled or professional beyond some bare minimum of competence....
The Risks of Overreporting
...bed for a few days, and not wanting to stray too far from home after that, and wouldn’t be making any social or professional plans for two weeks, why not...
Lonely and crying
...Bee Gees' records where he puts his voice at odds with the comfortable, professional songcraft and the lulling orchestrations, troubling it all with a trembling emotionality that exceeds all causality....
Late Night Is All We Have
A diary from two days in Dallas