Woman With a Weapon-Camera
On the work of Sarah Maldoror
Coming Out of the Coffin
..."Between Men” that love triangles have become a subject of proper theorization. Sedgwick's book single-handedly transformed the study of homosocial desire and her Foucauldian methods of reading desire come to...
Yids
...freedom, the struggle of access to family planning and self-determination. Esther and Fanya both push back against compulsory marriage and motherhood in their own complicated and sometimes unintentional ways, in...
The Ladies Vanish
...tech companies are less than forthcoming. But researching the demographics of mechanical turkers is even harder, as they are decentralized and anonymous. In 2010, New York University professor Panos Ipeirotis...
Peace And/Or Quiet
...political analysis comes off as transparently facile. Horgan uses Switzerland, Sweden, and Costa Rica as examples of “pacifist societies” that “if all nations emulated, there would be no war.” Although...
Comfortably Alone
...interaction that they typically struggle with: the discouraging pressure to come up with conversation topics, the nonverbal cues that can confuse them, the rituals of etiquette that calibrate intimacy. With...
black (beyond negation)
...One encounters Hegel’s negating voice as a frame—perhaps the frame—against which study is posed. One reads countless variations of Said—filtered through Mudimbe—as one version of African studies: white supremacist colonial...
Real Human Being
...the Word” in which the study of our narratives conditions our study of nature—a new order of knowledge that leads to new modalities of being. Perhaps we will put an...
Sunday Reading
...commute cost? What Exactly Was Joseph Mitchell Doing All Those Years at the New Yorker? Kitabet: Methodolatry and the Art of Measure What to Expect When Campus Watch Smears You...
Cat Power
...Tom Sachs Crying Hello Kitty (2008) The first book in the subfield of Hello Kitty studies, Pink Globalization explores Kitty's kawaiipolitik In her 2011 study Airborne Dreams: "Nisei"...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 16, 2019)
...study suggests Members of San Francisco's disability community weigh in on the fraught issue of restaurant accessibility A rundown of the Guardian's picks for the 10 best culinary memoirs A...
Fun With Agamben!
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn
Commies for Christ
...Christ modeled, free from the kind of social order that eventually did Christ in. The law, however, tends to get its way eventually. By the later Middle Ages, monasteries became...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.30.12
...All Because It's So Basic, we are not smearing asbestos all over our bodies, the FDA concluded after a year of quiet study.) Babyface: Your baby is ugly. What to...
American Saints
...of study. Among entrepreneurs and those who study them, there exist healthy disagreements about received truths. The entrepreneur-turned-academic Full disclosure: I have met Vivek several times seeking his views on...
Already Pretty Giveaway
...“Figure flattery” doesn’t have to mean “skinny, busty, tall, and hipless.” Sometimes it might mean that, sure. But as Sally points out (and which was one of my biggest “aha!”...