Misery Loves Company
In László Krasznahorkai’s latest work, the apocalypse has arrived and we’re living in it.
Melancholic Damage
...can’t fathom why she would intentionally invest in the damage Brown symbolizes. Why continue to put personal and professional resources in to her relationship with Brown, when, at least at...
So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
...infrastructure dedicated to reading and sharing essays into a giant sex apparatus, a flasher’s trenchcoat attached to a digital Rube Goldberg machine. Not that writerly exhibitionism — or a paraphilic...
Lunch on the Grass
...pass the hours until more normal conditions return. So too can prosaic solitary activities, like collecting wildflowers, swimming in ponds or the sea, and marking the shapes of scudding clouds....
Your Friends and Neighbors
...wrong to pass along naked photos of someone we know, but we feel freer to talk about who they’ve slept with, which can be just as damaging. Radical-transparency advocates might...
Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
...Cup in 2015? It would make sense, in some ways. Internationally speaking, women’s soccer still lags behind men’s in popularity and professional participation, but in the United States, that wasn’t...
Softer Than Softcore
...brains are rife with hidden knots, the release of which depends on triggers that can be pulled almost without our knowing, or understanding why. The first professional physical massage I...
Crazy in Love
...but they are an implicit critique of the infrastructure of working, the charms and nice smells with which people survive the painful world. So loving a crazy person forces you...
Power Pop
...the strategy of urging all arts organizations to strive to earn more money, an approach that ultimately feeds professional autonomy.” But market reforms and globalization have done little to introduce...
Cookie Cutters
...they are there through tracking or by chance. Did the latest offer from McDonald’s come because the New York Times sold space to McDonald’s, or because your profile was sold...
The Enduring Popularity of the Suntan
...of material luxury, a tan represents that we have the luxury to be connected to both nature and culture simultaneously. Tourism boards use tanning in their materials: “The bourgeois on...
Whirlpool of the Masses
The biopolitical response to COVID extends the reactionary orientalism that characterized the 1865 cholera outbreak in Mecca
The Data Sublime
...in me. Today, however, it is less charismatic autocrats that threaten to evoke this feeling than a web of largely incomprehensible technological infrastructure. As sociologist Mark Andrejevic has argued, environments...
Get Your Strike On
...y vĂstanse de rojo como un lazo rojo o ropa de color roja ManifiĂ©state en contra de los roles de gĂ©neros • Contact/Contactenos en: [email protected] [email protected] womenstrikeus.org @womenstrikeus facebook.com/womenstrikenyc/...
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
...do over the course of a winter, replacing its organs with new infrastructure vein by valve, and it isn’t even quite true that we were fighting communists, just people in...
Amniotechnics
...contamination and corrosion, in three places, from the planned oil pipeline. As well as representing an ideology, Mni Wiconi is thus a literal pre-existing infrastructure serving several parts of nearby...