Aux Armes (or Not)
...wanted to capture the Gainsbourg he saw in his dreams. Sfar wrote on his website that the film would resemble “a fairy tale” rather than the Vie en Rose-style biopic...
General Strike! May 1st!
...The New Inquiry will be going black on May 1st. If you run a website, you should shut it down. If you work in an office or a store...
The Pleasure Model
...its website, “What's your pleasure?” Such nouveau sex-toy makers have built a garden, a beautiful place, completely separate from the messy work of heaving bodies, sexism, and history. A pleasure...
Built to Last
...photography, the fact that everyone has camera phones, everyone has an instant way of documenting a moment and then uploading it to a website, it’s slowly going to overshadow the...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...willing to admit that: "The website of New Wave claims to supply major Western retailers from the U.S. and Europe. Ethar claims to produce clothes for Walmart, but this has...
Enkare, Patriarchal Power, Friends with Roses
...negated—by being framed as a problem about development? Why use one of the dominant tools of white supremacist colonial power—claims of backwardness—on a website ostensibly dedicated to African literary and...
My Soul to Keep
...challenge of all, listening to a lecture on trigonometry. The show's website allowed viewers to keep track of the contestants' sleepiness and performance. Almost all the contestants suffered from the...
Splay Attention
...condition. “It is motivated by a desire to be a LIVE node on the network,” Stone writes on her website. “Another way of saying this is that we want to...
Syria’s Desaparecidos
...articles about Syria’s disappeared can be found in various news outlets, and Amnesty International hosts a petition on its website addressed to al-Assad demanding he reveals their whereabouts. But most...
Il faut défendre la société contre les étudiants: Québec's Law 78
...from the social network website Twitter could also be considered as encouragement to protest. When asked to clarify, she said she would leave it up the police's discretion to deem...
Ambitious Conditions: Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go"
...“movement”—the bourgeois class of young and transnational Africans who, as she put it, are “not citizens but Africans of the world.” Her website claims that she is “born in London,...
True Stories
...news website and read about how longhaired dogs require brushing, you may wonder why that’s taking up space that might otherwise be devoted to, say, updates from Egypt or analysis...
X Marks the Spot: Occupy’s Architecture
...website. Before there was U.S. Steel, there was the Singer Building, a different building altogether this time, occupying only the southwestern portion of the block on which U.S. Steel would...
“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
The Birth of a Beauty Criticism
...refresh on one particular website. It was Beauty Schooled (now in archive form), a blog by journalist Virginia Sole-Smith, who was chronicling her experience as a student at “Beauty U,”...
May Day 2012
...to my expectations, which I had set none too high. The Occupy Phoenix website reports that student protesters from Arizona State University plan to lay siege to Tempe. They have...