Mr. Kristof and His Hugs
...version of licking and grooming — hugging and kissing babies, and reading to them — fortify our offspring and even our society as well? [emphasis not in original] 'The New...
Discipline and Pleasure
...version of consumption: There is no use value to drugs except enjoyment; you directly buy “pleasure.” This validates the promise that consumer goods can provide pleasure without complications, mediations, or...
The Pleasure Model
...of the power dynamics inherent in sexual relations between actual people. Sure, sex is pleasurable. Sex can be fun. But sex is also complicated. Power is tossed around the sheets...
Body / Cock: The Body That is Not Personal
This is how I learn to live life with death as my equal
Intentions
An excerpt from On the Inconvenience of Other People (2022)
Chaos Orders Us: A Letter From Paris
Why, all across the globe, does everything that serves to preserve the tradition of the oppressed also serve to oppress COVID-19?
Minor Feelings
...guitars, and the phrase girl power seeped into the lexicon from the underground precincts of riot grrrl. Women had long been making challenging rock music, but only for this span...
Shaheen Bagh
...to completely misunderstand the terrain of battle: even the ideal citizen is already a product of power. Even the purest of democracies, that of Athens, subjugated all living beings (zoe)...
Bend It Like Benglis
...ad assumes dick power while underlining the subsequent fact that, thanks to her dildo, she doesn’t really need it; she wants it, and for a while, anyway, she owns it....
Old Bones
...we are able to make a 3-D animation of it, then we have power over it. At least when it comes to medical and neuroscience, there’s this belief that just...
Housewife Demonology
heteropessimism of the will, cruel optimism of the spirit
Feral Memes
...a sign of swearing allegiance, while its stated wish to possess the gun underscores the militant’s desire to seize power through violence and topple his “Western” foe. Holding his palm...
Swarovski Kristallnacht
...legitimized by the preservationist, selective power of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—tourists get all the wittiness and cool with none of the bleaker complications. In other words, the Met doing...
The White Man's Burden
...of Power (1985): a ziggurat composed of 100 gold bricks. The monolithic bombast of works like Big Wheel and One Ton Truck have less to do with “omnipresent fixation with...
Editors' Note, Vol. 29: Queens
...performance of her power, or a sad commentary on its actual application. Such is the plight of the queen. A queen is the image of a woman at the height...
Queens
...the power of the ceremony, but the queen does not signal that she notices. It seems like a grace note in the performance of her power, or a sad commentary...