Sunday Reading
...Karen Gregory: One Small Thing Banal Misogyny Survival of the Sexiest Most Feminist Moments in Sci-Fi Nils Leonard’s Manic Professional Dream Girl ‘Back-up husbands,’ ‘emotional affairs’ and the...
All The Wild Animals
...In David Attenborough's latest BBC nature series Life Story , the animals play very human roles For years now the BBC has been less a public broadcaster than a...
"She Was 25 and Curvaceous": The Death of Lorena Xtravaganza
...in part by how well I "pass"—pass as an attractive woman who knows how to send the right signals, pass as a woman who wants to be taken seriously yet...
Sick City, Soaked Lens
...that go into that construction. This, I argue, goes far beyond searching from some indexical trace of a "real world" to be glimpsed, and even further from any banal fetishization...
From the Favelas
...Roller, a 26 year old American who has been living and working for two years in one of Rio de Janeiro's thousands of favelas, poorer neighborhoods with improvised infrastructure that...
Desecration Hardware (Prelude: The Montpellier Armoire)
...causes the spider to weave a new web, not one of domesticity or the reproduction of its own existence, but of the necessary infrastructure for the transmission of something entirely...
The Dandelion and the Lucky Peach
...chicken soup or pot roast we pine for, not a Remberance of Things Past. Rather, we’re searching to fill a void left by a more primal pre- memory and its...
Sunday Reading
...political meaning you don’t even have to be human, raw materials will do. . . Birthright programs and "long-distance nationalism" "Urban Target Complex National Monument": declassifying and remediating military spaces...
The New Inquiry Vol. 55: Testing
...test itself, a test of how far we can push the materials of society to reflect critically on themselves. With this latest collection, we hope we’ve passed the test....
Miracle Devices
The medical-device industry has been mobilized against the patients it purportedly serves
Destroy All Monsters
...goes for highly populated sections of Tokyo, where he destroys commercial buildings, media infrastructure (a TV broadcast tower), and the symbols of political power (the National Diet Building). The arc...
The Floral Is the Political
...Barbican. We met over a glass of wine (for her) and an espresso martini (for me), to discuss her latest film with Natalie Portman, the politics of art, and homework....
The New Inquiry Vol. 53: Aging
...old age and its attendant decay as a constant, there are inhuman materials that surround us which refuse to go along at our familiar rate. Keguro Macharia’s moving account of...
Open Wide
...them to music and turned them into a pair of successful albums in the 1990s. When entrepreneur Michael Birch was putting together social network Bebo.com in 2006, he reached out...
The Clique Imaginary
...Crowley’s statement about gangs are not specifically gendered, having authored a book called Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional when Things Get Personal, she has a particular bone...
Paths to Gory
...its promotional materials, the movie had a depressive torpor that militated against pleasure on any level. Whereas traditional horror movies tend to build up and release tension around murders that...