Kid Stuff
...neighbors. Childhood is not carefree. The myth of childhood leaves some adults unsure of how to react to emotional gravity coming from the mouth of a cute little kid. When...
You Are Too Much
...overlyattachedgirlfriend.com The Overly Attached Girlfriend's desire isn't oriented towards sex or even a boyfriend; both are just means to maximal intensity of feeling This is the age of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
runs/Away from his own applause.
...he has resolved the problems of originality and communication, Beachy-Quick’s latest chapbook, Heroisms marks a shift from a concern with subjective to intersubjective knowledge. Beachy-Quick has set aside the anxiety...
The Predator and the Jokester
Power shows its ugliest tentacles most clearly in the figures of the predator and the jokester
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...