Boardwalk YOLO and ASMR videos
...social context. In school, at home, at church… there are always adults listening in." She argues that cell phones are the latest technology to offer "interstitial spaces" to teens in...
Old Bones
...Leipzig in 1983 and trained in philosophy and anthropology, she works across cinema, radio, installation, and dance to investigate the dramaturgy of science. Her latest essay film, This Unwieldy Object,...
Fairest of Them All
...ways women relate to one another through beauty. The idea behind Carolyn's latest, The Fairest of Them All, is deceptively simple: What if Rapunzel were Snow White's "evil stepmother"? That...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.19.13
...licensing of beauty professionals (according to an industry poll, but still)—it's worth a moment to look at this state-by-state "heat map" of deregulation threats. Big business: The growing middle...
This Week In Art Crime
...A thirty-nine-foot banner was unfurled in the rotunda of a sparsely-attended Guggenheim Museum this evening, the latest action carried out by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Front (G.U.L.F.) activist...
What the hell is the family?
...it by oneself. Unfortunately... Outside the family, we live labor, the factory, the office, friends and comrades, politics, social problems, economic problems; inside the family we can shed our professional...
Sunday Reading
...in World War I: Evidence from colonial Punjab The Suppressed Discourse: Arab Victims of National Socialism Prison literature from the Arab world The demise of professional theatre in Calcutta Arabia's...
The Right to Remain Silent
...a Category IV language based on the Foreign Service Institute’s difficulty index criteria. That means the average ASL student would need 1,100 hours to reach “general professional proficiency.” Other Category...
The Predator and the Jokester
Power shows its ugliest tentacles most clearly in the figures of the predator and the jokester
Sunday Reading
...with Fernand Braudel The Professional Worldview of the Effendi Historian Primo Levi and The Canto of Ulysses ReclaimUC: What really happens in those UC regents' meetings? Sports over education at...
Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation
...back. Meanwhile, I update my interlocutor, a curator based in Amsterdam, with the latest run-of-show. I drink iced tea and tinker with my slides until midnight. I wake up without...
Flag-waving And Drowning: On The New Branding Policy Of UKaid
...Thus development policy must be amnesiac and silent about this historical mess of indebtedness, and this latest branding exercise is another confirmation of this. Insisting on the bold display of...
Model Behavior
...were absolutely in agreement on this point. The latest right-on theories about eating disorders posit the diseases as a method that young women use to escape the stresses of modern...
Serious action
...I have a long essay in the latest New Inquiry issue about the metaphor of "microfame" and what sort of ideological work it performs. (It's not online yet,...
From Russia With Literature
...didn’t have a wife like this, but his manuscripts went to the literary archives, where they sat on the shelves unpublished until after perestroika. A scholar researching the period saw...
Change of Place: Kasarani-Gaza-Ferguson
...do not remember when I unlearned to say Moi, when the Moi International Sports Complex simply became its location, Kasarani. Partly, this is convenience. Partly, it was a small gesture...