The Well-Heeled Life: Shoes, Ability, and Fear [Guest Post]
...stood on the venue’s version of a dancefloor and thanked the classmates who passed by me and complimented my dress. My dress, to this day, is one of the prettiest...
Fist to Brain
...no one would have needed to come up with an upper class version of it. Since a gym in New York did so in the late 80's, “White-Collar Boxing” has...
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...one here, the Maison Martin?” I ask, pointing at a round bottle with an understated label, the name in typewriter font. “Good choice,” says the sales associate. “Which one would...
A Cut Below
...fare of most underground pornography. Praeputii Incisio is in fact an abridged version of an earlier book: Peter Charles Remondino’s 1891 History of Circumcision From the Earliest Times to the...
Digital Runways, Paper Dolls
...microblogging about it on Sina Weibo (China’s version of Twitter), where fashion tips are one of the most popular trending topics. To be sure, Chinese luxury consumers are not all...
Woman With a Weapon-Camera
On the work of Sarah Maldoror
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
Goodnight
...which consciousness returns but the body remains asleep, a condition called atonia. Polansky, a game designer, tries to turn her paralysis into a playable, experiential version, but finds the process...
Bad News
...vacuity of mass media as an urgent object of critique rather than an everyday fact. But, understood as the critique of corruption, a version of this position was ascendant in...
Fans
...criticism of the philosophers. And in the partially completed world that these haters envisioned, and where we now live, fans persist as the version of the fanatic the market has...
Robots on an Escalator
...and let an algorithm provide an distilled, essential version of the self. The Globe article offers this interpretation of Kazemi's work: "By imitating humans in ways both poignant and disorienting,...
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
Death by Twitter
...the writing of Flaubert, Gide, Camus, Le Clézio and Barthes. In Francophone literature, it crossed the line from low to high culture. But though a version of it was present...
Army Realness from NATO to NBC
...ex-Delta Force commanders, real ex-Green Berets, real celebrities, etc.—outranks previous shows of its ilk. It also makes the Pentagon Channel look like the army version of the perpetuated congressional yawn...
The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift
...version of yourself or the most creative alter ego your brain can devise. The dark is literally and metaphorically the context in which most people are most comfortable being fully...
Full Brightness
...were only a misbehaving version of his waking one. I wished he hadn’t told me he used Sleep Cycle. We hold no one’s interest when we speak of our own...