Curls and the Patriarchy
...the men in the room, sure enough, I hear my voice dwindle. I'm a feminist who "knows better," and I do it anyway; I try to stop myself from piping...
Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
The Tourist Sublime
...psychogeography: “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” The idea is that by...
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...
Lost & Found (4)
...Dispatches from the Reanimation Library Hypnography: A Study in the Therapeutic Use of Hypnotic Painting. Mears, Ainslie. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1957. The Reanimation Library is a small,...
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
...occurrence, the international community gives local political elites an excuse for inaction. 4. Elliot Prasse-Freeman’s case study, “Be Aware: Nick Kristof’s Anti-Politics.” Serious and vicious. Kristof isn’t the problem, but...
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...
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...
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...
Short Circuit
...the artists and a few folks in South America and the Pacific Northwest, that does a better job of sharing a common contemporary condition than so much of what passes...
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...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 26, 2020)
...Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Image: St. John's University Kids who watch cooking shows demand healthier snacks, new study finds Trump's re-election bid expected to send...
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...
Bathrobe Boy
...you, though it probably was when I was researching my last book (Charmed Thirds--set mostly at Columbia) in 2005. I read several issues of various CC publications, and I must...
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...
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...