Tender Potatoes
...of stillness inside a desolate hotel, Akerman and Mangolte replicated Snow’s back and forth tracking shots for La chambre, completing a 360-degree pan around Akerman’s New York apartment, revealing dishes...
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...greater power than virtually every man in the country—could watch you whenever they pleased. Here are a few of the things that may result for women from objectification, whether...
A Gay Communist Manifesto
An excerpt from the classic 1977 text Towards A Gay Communism
Unfit for Consumption
...terrifying power of female bodies. Freud, for instance, believed that disgust for menstruation expressed an “organic repression” ingrained in our biological makeup, while disgust for other bodily excreta, such as...
Meat Market
...ordained with the power of finding and selling authenticity on the assumption that it exists somewhere, outside the self, and with the right training it can be discovered. Just as...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...exercise sovereign power over the living, as they establish cordons sanitaires around entire regions and communities, institute national lockdowns, and support village-based quarantines. None of these are innately bad interventions,...
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Film as a Subversive Art @ Spetacle Theater 3/25
...a magic in movies. What subversive power could be unleashed by the full cinematic deployment of magic? Of unleashing the ancient resistance embodied in witchcraft, trance, sorcery or voodoo? Maya...
Hangar to Grave
...dimming windows. Looking deeper inside the aircraft, we find yet another familiar new media component: the lithium-ion batteries that power the aircraft’s APU or auxiliary power unit (basically an internal...
Sunday Reading
...on winking in that URL forever." Soldier shot dead the night of his home-coming party from Afghanistan had never actually left the country. "It had showers, air-conditioning, WiFi. He found...
Girls, Belated
...Patrick Wilson: I watched the episode, loved it (I laughed! I cried! It was better than Cats!), and when I poked around online to find commentary was shocked to find...
The History of Dialogue: Black Friday
...pay rent on the playground to AT&T or Microsoft or whoever. But I guess I find this situation equally full of potential and horror. On the one hand, we can...
Sunday Reading
...Gaza,’ writes Leon Wieseltier.” Second tweet I read this morning is from Alex Kane: “Israeli military analyst: Israeli tanks ‘received an order to open fire at anything that moved.’” 21....
Beauty Blogosphere 2.17.12
...there is an underlying need that requires addressing," says industry analyst Karen Grant. That is, tell him what's wrong with him, then fix him. Sound familiar? Sample sale: Birchbox-like cosmetics...
Relatable Transitional Objects
...to become the basis for an entirely new comic exploring his fall in minute detail, exploding his myriad torments and self-doubts, and documenting long sessions with his analyst trying to...
Sunday Reading: July 23, 2023
...Los Angeles or New York, but has become a national issue. “It's a little bit startling that the supply of low rent units is falling everywhere,” Sophia Wedeen, research analyst...