Vinyl re-enchantment
...they will actually have in stock. Record Store Day supplies you with a prefab shopping list and an easy way to cross off every item on it — just come...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...interpellates its readers as voyeurs (via devices like those peephole covers) encourages a pose of spectacular detachment, the way that an Adorno and Horkheimer might rail against the effects of...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
The Two-Cocktail Makeover
...Two-Cocktail Makeover is science, kids. A research team based in France found that self-rated attractiveness of study participants increased along with alcohol consumption; people rated themselves as being more attractive,...
Blood and Glory
After 9/11, the bodies at Ground Zero were made heroic; the immigrant bodies that cleaned them up, less so
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)
...as he strove to look at them with ease and indifference, a faint stain of personal shame and commiseration rose to his own face. Angry with himself he tried to...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...manipulate us into doing what needs to be done, to tell lies so persuasively that we mistake them for truth, and in that way, they can actually come true. When...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...cinema could do no better. In temporary lieu of that, below are a couple of the films he dragged into the light and insisted be seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-pHcC_M3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-WQZx2oJo http://www.veoh.com/watch/v14074458aY356Cd4 Lastly,...
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
...endearment. The Paris Opera Ballet commissioned a documentary about Doisneau from Bel, a "low-rank" dancer a week away from retiring after a 20-year career. The evening of her last performance...
Iranophobia 2.0
...anything about Iran. That would be your best bet. The Apple legal policy that store managers showed Viteri is merely a compliance document stating U.S. embargoes on prohibited sales with...
Looney Tunes
...metrics: I don't feed anyone to keep them there, I want them to always feel free to leave if they don't like it and go to a place where they...
Feedbags
...don't know what the exact effects of the new "controls" will have on our News Feeds. You don't control an algorithm by feeding more information to it; you teach it...
Obituary: Borders Books and Music
...at the time, there was a comics store (Heroes), a candy store (How Sweet It Is), a great pizza shop (Pizza A-Go-Go), and CD store in addition to Borders. Throw...
Chubz: the Demonization of my Working Arse
...again, power. I lay on the bed and looked up to the ceiling. Turning over I grabbed a pile of magazines. The faces were unfamiliar, white, and Owen’s voice failed...
Study Abroad
...Venkatesh is convinced his approach is groundbreaking: “No one really had done a study on the complicated lives of people who toiled underground.” Yet many sociologists — including Melissa Ditmore,...