...however much the show might occasionally be tempted by the jouissance that Davis celebrates and represents -- the overriding imperative to work as little as possible -- the show’s much more powerful rebuke to that perspective comes from the incredible labor that goes into hand-stitching the feathered Indian costumes worn to great effect by Albert
The idea that we could enter a virtual realm once eased the cognitive dissonance brought on by technology. But now it sustains an illusory divide between what we do online and off
For white people with a hidden "exotic" lineage, ethnicity is largely an internal experience—making the externalized label of "exotic" uncommonly alluring.
Original image source: World War II poster, US National Archives What to call Private Manning? The question is surprisingly fraught. After all, Manning was about…
With the burgeoning power of women in the 1960s, someone had to find a way to neither deny the existence of women of color nor be permissive in their bid for power: enter the word "exotic."
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.