Some Country for Some Women
As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.
Nice Book Reviews
...now, online magazines (some which formerly started out as blogs.) I mean, think about the networks of visibility on what is considered book talk worthy enough to be retweeted, reblogged,...
Splay Attention
...asked his dancers to send him their favorite dance videos they’d found online, and worked with them to develop dances from the movements in them. (Submissions featured Martha Graham, Beyoncé...
Mystical Idiots
...rejected or ignored anymore — not when everyone can publish online instantly. Authors have disppeared, replaced by a legion of keystroke laborers, shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the...
Shoot Hip or Die
...it. *** The cosmic significance of Hipsta/gram is not physical. It ages digital photos for distribution in a digital world. But nothing really gets older online; the only aging of...
Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00
...would earn global returns far beyond this. (Indeed, its stunted release is by no means a threat to this: it's already hit $40 million in online sales and streaming, making...
Our Boys Gone Wild
...into the service of the state or are shaped by these demands, both in terms of surveillance and populist patriotism. For example, in 2014 an online campaign took off in...
Sunday Reading
...the gendered allusions into full culmination" "by blending it with a more Victorian medium of calligraphy, the texts became more substantial in effect" "people conceptualize the world into online and...
Thinking bad
...writing conspicuously lacks the disingenuous deference that a lot of online writing adopts, always aware of itself as potential personal-branding copy, potential social-network seeding. Dery's arch-outsider tone is a relic...
Open Wide
...And now, as massively open online courses bring the rhetoric of digital openness to education and Web-based startups are making it easy to share apartments and cars and unused parking...
Inside the Movies
...Interiors is an online journal, published on the 15th of each month, in which films are analyzed and diagrammed in terms of space. Interiors focuses on how space...
H8
...online prominence. As trolls and cyberbullies emerge as society’s new bêtes noires, “Don’t read the comments” is necessary advice for the thin-skinned—which, it turns out, describes most of us. We’re...
Turn Down for What?
...she can go online and lease it to her neighbors. It’s the same thing neighbors have always done, but rationalized and better suited for a population that’s used to relations...
Sunday Reading
...Be An Indian Giver’ Massive boulder narrowly misses car during landslide in Taiwan Alan Lomax’s incredibly massive archive of American blues music is coming online ‘this is the stupidest, most...
Sunday Reading
...life nathan jurgenson "The commodity markets of capitalism have made being truly different as difficult as space travel, and being merely different as easy as online shopping" "The more labor...
Sunday Reading
...euphemism. We are instead “expanding access”” “Just as CafePress can sell you a customized T-Shirt, why shouldn’t OKCupid aspire to sell you a customized partner?” “use online connectivity not to...