God’s Dice
...The reforms had offered an opportunity to crystalize needs: it was the moment to create a newspaper, The Daily Miserias. Based on a study by G.B.W. Ponce, Villa Miserians spent...
The Labor of Performance (Part One)
...the Goya portraits Gordon arranged for them to study at the Prado. Zidane, notoriously private, delivers a testimony of his innermost thoughts in the subtitles. He doesn't "talk" vocally or...
Sunday Reading
...Jacob Remes: "Our Problem is Free Market Investment as Housing Policy & Investors as a Global Social Class, Not 'Foreign' Investors" A Poem About Your University's Brand New...
The Changing Faces of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
...would shift--even in a single scene, I’d be like, “I’m not quite sure if that actually happened or not.” When I was workshopping it with some of my peers, what...
The Art of the Rebuttal: Ulrike Meinhof
...in earlier semesters will therefore not continue to lose valuable years before they finally see through the sham but begin to study and learn in critical fashion much earlier than...
Tow Center For Digital Journalism Presents: Race and New Media
...November 11th, 6pm, World Room, Pulitzer Hall/Journalism Presented by the MA Program in American Studies, the Center for Study of Ethnicity and Race, and the Tow Center for...
TONIGHT: Sixties Pop Icons, Unseen
...10th Avenue. All Photography Series events are FREE and OPEN to the public. — And Don't Forget! — The Half King will be sponsoring the After Party for TNI's Wild...
Workingman's Bread
...conclusion we need some advice.” Corson wanted to get Fifteen-Cent Dinners into as many Americans’ hands as possible. She mandated that the booklet be free to those whose daily wage...
Little Boxes on a Hillside
...only today they are “millenials,” creative professionals, or empty-nested baby boomers, people who will want to believe everything Montgomery says. As Josh Dzieza laments in a review of Leigh Gallagher’s...
The Birth of Motherhood
...you have a child. Right. Sure, I have a child, I’m part of this conversation, perhaps. But this isn’t a piece of work about me. So I spent a lot...
Vol. 72 Editors’ Note: Bad Vibes
A rough cut of emotion and body language, what we might one day call “our affective commons”
Beauty Blogosphere 11.16.12
...lawsuits in Bangalore against cosmetics companies with misleading ads. I haven't read anything of false advertising claims being filed anywhere other than western nations, so I'm not sure if this...
When Lovers Die
...out. The love-is-death story is so common we could do nothing but list sentence-long summaries of examples for weeks. In its lasting depictions, love is a way to die more...
Sunday Reading
...Rick Santorum "crazy" Although, to be honest, I'm not sure we should call anyone crazy. Police and the 99% Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power...
The Faces of Rimbaud
...Illuminations, a collection of 40 poems in prose and two in free verse that will change world literature forever, he is already a walking contradiction, a centaur. *** Carjat’s photo...
Fun Will Find a Way
...obligatory — fulfilling capitalism's need for ever increasing consumer demand — is actually an expression of their existential freedom, their liberation: Marcuse's repressive tolerance under a sunnier mantle, complete with...