Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
...cases textured by images, objects, and texts, many of which cite the self-articulated interests of school shooters as posted on online forums. Crespo’s punny invocation of “case” within her title...
Called to Account
...Society, especially those that are both necessary and a hindrance to building a socially respectable life. You talk about them in your own life—reading sort-of-work-related online news, buying a house,...
African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi
.... These days I can’t watch a music video online without you trolling in the comments dressed to kill in your new age binary clothes. The (n)epithet (as Christina Sharpe...
Vol. 70 Editors' Note: Service
Who do you serve? Who do you protect?
The Petraeus Affair: Infidelity, Beauty, and Scapegoating
...use a makeover, and the aforementioned comment-section trolls, the only mention of Holly Petraeus’s looks I could find by poking around online comes from...well, Meghan Daum, and people rightfully echoing...
The Bitter Women of Japanese Noir
...the scales by bringing others down. A search for “bitter women” online comes up with a bevy of results that imply, even today, that women have a reputation for it....
Closing Statements
...publishing them online in 2011. In the decades encompassed by the archive, there seems to be little attempt to adhere to any common standards of record-keeping. In some instances, a...
Presenting Men
Some considerations...
Killing the Angel in the House
...when I couldn't sleep I found instructions online for how to care for a donkey. Donkeys are supremely underrated. They are life's best companion. (From the handbook: 'Donkeys will mother...
Social media and sensibility
...emotional pleasure. The novel (as is claimed about smartphones and other modes of online engagement today) pre-empts the need for co-presence. But the pleasures of exercising sensibility — an 18th...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...but of how the beauty industry works. "I’ve been told by retailers that black women don’t shop online. They said, ‘We can’t put your whole line on the website.’ I...
Rhizome Call for Papers and Projects on E-Cigarettes and Vaping Technologies
...wide net for histories, essays, artworks, workshops, and polymorphous contributions to shape this inquiry to be held online and off. Be in touch... Deadline Nov 12 More info ...
Sunday Reading
...Frank Pasquale: The phantom fraud task force. Scientism is shallow. Manufacturing folk devils. New corporate education model: "online correspondence school for very rich adults who want to be flattered"...
Gamifying Beauty
...lending the benefits of gaming to more tedious tasks (like work), the tedium is lessened because it feels more like play. Perhaps you’ll be more likely to, say, complete online...
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