Beauty Blogosphere 4.23.12
...recent find of the 1940s-ish version of the pot belly: the "bay window." Non/toxic: The willy-nilly nature of cosmetics regulation came into sharp relief recently when it turned out that...
She's All That
...academic and wife. Michèle, after the attack, similarly abandons an older version of herself without so much as a tear. Interestingly, both women also struggle with mothers who cannot let...
Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
...considered a threat to national security and exploitable by axis powers, in particular Japan, who was promoting its own version of Black-Asian solidarity. As a Cold War strategy the White...
True Stories
...the ultimate click-bait personal essay. A fictional version would probably not have attracted over four thousand comments. There is a real dog, whose photo accompanies the piece, as if to...
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...
On Rage and Swagger
...often mistaken for the swagger of who carries, wears, drives, uses those objects. (The meaning of its crass, truncated version swag, or swag bag, i.e. shitty cheap objects given or...
Un(der)seen Cinema: Europa 2005
...view. As a result, she loses everything and ends up arrested and institutionalized for helping a young thief. In Straub-Huillet’s version there are no spoken words, no actors, no narrative....
A Pueblo, a World
What from outside seems an extraordinary feat of organization is nothing more than the everyday forms of collective life
Sunday Reading
..."the Great Man version of Twitter's history" "women who post on “Am I Ugly?” receive an average of 54 replies, while men receive an average of 14" "There was a...
Creepshots and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of "Free Speech"
...only protects the kinds of speech that some version of the social “we” has determined not to be violent. And by saying that what he did was protected, we are...
No Contest
...version of those sports. That is a horribly boring possible future and a one that violates the sports fan’s bargain. The fans bankroll the enterprise, every bit of it, and...
Virality virus
...of urging us to consider how to turn conversation into "social currency." Social currency as Berger presents it is a sort of dumbed-down, habitus-free version of Bourdieu's cultural capital, easily...
Biopolitical Exclusion Starts with a Hug
...it should be; see a recent aggregation here). More important is how this intervention operationalizes a particularly advanced version of paternalistic liberal biopolitics by making biological life itself the object...
Obscenity: I Know It When I See It
...Maria Gunnoe is a West Virginia coalfield activist, and this video is one version of her story. It always makes me tear up; I've seen it a half dozen...
No Mushroom Cloud
...zaibatsu were broken up during the post-World War II US occupation, but eventually a new version, keiretsu, became common. Keiretsu generally paired a bank with a trading company; the bank...
Midwest
...honestly, I never ate the desserts once I was an adult. Maybe this is the Chicago or Chicago suburban version of such places, not charming like small towns—maybe I have...