Bathrobe Boy
...to an article I’d written for Columbia’s student magazine, The Blue and White, early in my senior year. That article, which unfortunately is not archived online, in turn referred to...
Cool Front/
Hot Mess
...reject disingenuousness. Kids know how to recognize the phoniness of fashionable fronting from their own experience in broadcasting their lives online. That’s why J.W. Anderson, a young 21st-century-formed designer, is...
A Sentimental Education
...with a circle of online writers called Vavilon. Vavilon poetry represents a tendency Medvedev labels “the new sincerity,” which he defines as “the appeal to personal experience (childhood; romantic and...
Insiders
...to meet the needs of our subscribers who interact with TNI in a number of ways—less through our PDF and more through not simply online essays but also printed objects,...
Miyoko Hikiji, Soldier, Author, and Model, Iowa
...Noble bookstores and online On Uniformity One thing I thought was funny was pajamas. All the guys slept in their brown T-shirt or just their boxer shorts, because it’s not...
Sunday Reading
...South, is up Hegemony begins in the workplace I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society Online Archive of a Human Zoos Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese Kitabet: “Last Breath...
Little Boxes on a Hillside
...town in America has a municipal code, and many are identical, copied from an online database called Municode. The code dictates the width of roads, the height of curbs, and...
Straight Men Can Be Bent
...solving, of all things, the problem of representing the Internet in art. A collaborator said it attempted to “explore not just literal representations of how online communication works, but also...
Reparative compulsions
...data is individualized, while your behavior is homogenized. The pretense of self-construction online becomes an alibi for ourselves, authorizing self-forgetting, escape. When we are seeking the self, we may be...
Me Meme
...supplanted by self-consumption. Postauthenticity (you might call it “normcore”) rationalizes the terror of ubiquitous surveillance and makes accelerated consumption benevolent. Doing more online causes not more anxiety about whether what...
Sunday Reading
...which the Guardian obtained through the California Public Records Act — confirm what many protesters already know: plainclothes officers frequent meetings, police monitor Occupy Oakland's online communications, anarchists are feared,...
The Eaten World
...up my results online. As a gastroenterology fellow, I hear a fair bit about the microbiome--a term referring to the aggregate genetic material of the microorganisms that colonize our bodies’...
Not for Prophet
...they’re using weather.com—TWC’s online arm—or its self-titled mobile app. My own impression of the channel was that it was a relic, rarely spotted except for on the offcolor, wall-mounted screens...
Interview with Kate Zambreno
...programs. I think there's more permission online in terms of that sort of writing — writing that is more openly hybrid, or autobiographical, or taking the form of the diary...
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
All Eyez on Not-Me
...an “exclusive” moment online, then close the tab with the satisfied belief that we too experienced it. We are no longer the protective owners of one-of-a-kind experiences. We are the...