See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two
...and act like humans, but often they’re birds, or monsters, and sometimes they might even happen to be writers. • For us, being a writer doesn’t mean strutting in the...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Thirty-One
...that humans have barely begun to comprehend the depth of animal life, we can't even be trusted to know vegetable and mineral life in much detail either. Names and classifications...
No End in Night
...ability, which is probably true, but it’s also true that as humans we are functions of time. We require something to do, somewhere to go, and so it is time,...
Face Me, I Face You
...better known. In 1568, the Queen presented John Hawkins with a coat of arms. The design pictured an enslaved African person, to reflect the trade in humans Hawkins had pioneered....
The Ahmeds in America, Part One
...that follows; it is the primary love relationship - the first that humans experience, and as such, a profound influence on all subsequent and secondary relationships in life. It is...
The Magnetic North
...of darkness and icy horror where humans could not survive. These were succeeded by the medieval idea of the far north as Ultima Thule, the borders of the known world....
Further Reading
...Sylvia Wynter, “No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues” On Fugitivity and Captivity Slave narratives, from Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl: Written...
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Internet
...innocently onwards towards pure knowledge. Yet it is just this disastrous de-historicizing that the euphemismistic nature of the Internet protects: by hiding the extent to which humans are behind every...
Econospeak
...is at a deliberate remove from the complexity and the uncertainties of modern life. It suggests that because humans are rational thinkers, then our actions can always be predicted, or...
Spontaneity On Demand
...regarded the routines stemming from the division of labor not as spiritually engaging but as soul deadening, stupefying humans to the level of brutes by restricting them to mindless, deskilled...
Sex Appeal, Beauty, and Normalcy: Rachel Hills' "The Sex Myth"
...skirts and tasteful kitten heels lying in our wake. Sex, looks, and normalcy: Humans walk a fine line here to avoid falling on the “wrong” side, and women have more...
Reacting to Reactions
...its assumption is that humans experience a limited set of emotions and Facebook need only reflect that with a concise emoji set. This is unlike actual emoji, of which there...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.1.12
...feminization of The New Aesthetic is a must-read if you're interested in visual culture even in the slightest. "The New Aesthetic is about being looked at by humans and by...
Sunday Reading
...Infrastructure Atomic Explosion Tourism “…an ethical obligation to store nuclear waste in a way that would prove least harmful to humans deep into the future.” The Mittkaars: on saltmakers in...
The Taste of Earth
...landscapes of humans, winds or seas. Somewhere in my own history of learning how to get to know a landscape that very entanglement of the forms of nature exists. I...