Dans le Rouge
...masse. The language factor is just one of the complicating elements to any understanding of the Quebec protests that sees them simply as an offshoot of the Occupy movement. Quebec...
The Failure Addict
...shame and prurience. Facebook can seem at times an enormous simulacrum of the Pussycat Lounge, full of voyeurism and cynical, semi-professional exhibitionism, but obviously the divide between performer and audience...
The Unfuckables
...that's drawn to NBC comedies. Although much of their humor derives from lampooning others on the stage or the red carpet, it is never anti-women-in-general. Anti-certain-actresses, sure. But where Griffin...
Labor Models
...beauty imperative has been discussed for some time now, but when it comes to solutions everyone wants to pass the buck. Consumers want media outlets to use a wider range...
Sunday Reading
...about it." "The fish refrigerators are the latest unusual measure taken by fish and wildlife managers." "They'll stay with us until it rains. After that, they'll be returned to the...
Les Saignantes @ The Morbid Anatomy Museum
...To celebrate the latest issue of The New Inquiry Magazine, "Mourning," we have teamed up with The Future Weird and the Morbid Anatomy Museum to bring you a...
No, You're Already Pretty
...Thanks to everyone who entered the Already Pretty giveaway! I went numerically-chronologically, starting with the-beheld.com, then e-mail entries from readers understandably frustrated by the Blogger comment system, then...
Kenya Will Never Was
...comfortably move past. Indeed, the strikes by various professional groups over the past few years—doctors, nurses, teachers—have been about being part of the precariat. Unless one comes from established money,...
Empire Goes to College
...for academics who once enjoyed lifetime employment and a high degree of professional autonomy and comfort. His critique of the limitations of the trade union as a form of working...
Editors' Note, Vol. 36: Stars
...This is the editorial note to TNI Vol. 36: Stars. View the full table of contents here. Subscribe to TNI for $2 and get Stars (and free access...
Do No Harm
...at home so long as he made sure I didn’t slip into a coma. If you haven’t had your life saved by a hell-raising gay man running red lights with...
♫ Roxane ♫
...the mumbles and nods came mostly from the black women in the audience. A group of professional literary folks (editors, writers, and the like) were there too, and there were...
I Woke Up Like This
...out there, a parallel dimension of party populated by the affluent professional class and New Age disciples. As someone whose average Saturday morning begins with a few hours of chest-rattling...
Reimagining Networks
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
...workers share what they’ve learned from their professional family obligations. Alana Massey addresses the young sugar baby as she would a junior trainee, reminding them that a sugar daddy is...
Sunday Reading
...so close to Sacramento!" Occupy the Farm and the Conditions of Academic Labor [be sure to check out the comments for a special visit from a UC administration's blustering, red-faced...