PRISM Breakup is a series of art and technology events dedicated to exploring and providing forms of protection from surveillance. This event came about in…
It doesn’t always help to be intelligible. Sometimes a healthy lack of lucidity, with just a soupçon of incoherence, can help one achieve the proper mindset to get where we want to be.
When it comes to extravagant beauty services—hell, most beauty services—it's the ultimate placebo effect: You only get out of it what you think you'll get out of it.
A Single Man starts and ends inside George’s house, and much of the film is set within the interior spaces. The house is a John Lautner home, the Schaffer Residence, which was designed in 1949 for the parents of an assistant...
Author and grouchy old man Jonathan Franzen used Karl Kraus to inspire his latest technophobe polemic. But what if he had turned to I Love Dick author Chris Kraus instead? On the Internet, anything is possible.
To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction, yet to be undeterred in our determination to face these forces, to fight to change their world and make it our own."
The ideal of authenticity established a boundary between the self and a complete surrender to capitalism; fashion bloggers live on both sides of the border
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.