...able to see through (what you perceive as) gimmickry of high-end products. It’s seemingly the inverse of the pleasure another woman might take in opening up a Chanel compact, seeing...
Health justice scholar Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with historian Jules Gill-Peterson about anti-trans policy, eugenics, and the material stakes of desire
...pleasure and profit." Among other social and economic developments, a burgeoning commodity market aided by innovations in lighting fueled this "nocturnal revolution." Shops, markets and arcades stayed open past nightfall,...
...what we recognize as real to trigger our response, but far enough away to make sure that response leaves us wanting, not contented. This is what fashion photography does; this...
...fingers, he was reading a paper and I leaned just under its crease, even the paper was sweating, on his fingers the cheap ink was coming free and years later...
...A loophole that an estimated 22% of married men have exploited at some point, sure, but never mind the 1-in-4 odds at play, right? Those odds are “supposed” to fall...
...architecture promotes dissatisfaction: The common spaces never fully achieve closure, instead gently twisting out of sight, always suggesting that something more can be had if one would venture a little...
...and bravely hurled his little body at the window, to break free of this house of hell and lead us to safety. At which point, having mistaken the glass picture...
...owner of a set of passwords that he or she knows—and that other people do not know. The contemporary subject is primarily a keeper of a secret." I'm not sure,...
...That is certain, but do I have to go and watch them? Do you? Does Adam Driver? Driver is contractually obligated, I'm sure, to be in the next one, though...
...any highway long enough, however, and you’re sure to find another heterotopia of deviance. They dot the landscape and come in many varieties. Some heterotopias “seem to be pure and...
...could comment on something, or if that was too much trouble, you could simply like it with a click. Or, of course, you could scroll past it with no response,...
...a sensibility of rules without a sense of principle. Rather than questioning from where we have come and where we are going, it simply asks that the trains run on...
...compete to sell their labor against workers in Northern Mexico and Southern China. For globalization apostles like Thomas Friedman, this situation simply means that workers everywhere need to pull themselves...