Two developments of the past few years call for the re-opening this discussion of the relationship between feminist politics and the referentiality of language: the feminist blogosphere and the lyrics of Taylor Swift.
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Since he wants so desperately to be nothing more than a humble man of the people, the movie functions as one long demonstration that no such thing as “the people” exists.
MTV’s Teen Mom presents teen motherhood not as a threat to the normal structures of everyday life, but as our new social reality. What it doesn’t get to is that this is a good thing
THE DANCE CARTEL have been performing their pomo-pomo pop carnival ONTHEFLOOR production for four months now to a packed house at the Ace Hotel. We love…
Aversion, deadening, patience, cynicms, hatred, weariness, reluctance: These photos of soldiers before, during, and after their tours of Afghanistan reflect something more complex than a mere loss of innocence.
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.