terrain & terroir
...second version, and in an era of rising fundamentalisms of all types, law and religion collapse into each other. * What do you have to know about Uganda to write...
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...Elizabeth Peyton, Craig (1997). A version of this post originally appeared on Generation Bubble The Birth of Cool The rise of consumerism coincided with a promise about liberation....
Ambitious Conditions: Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go"
...Go, was guided into print by no less than Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie; before she had even finished it, she was given a two-book deal. “The version of Selasi’s...
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...
Dicks
...foreskin simply a less hot version of the labia? Not to the Catholic Church and not to its nuns, whose ecstatic habit of dropping Jesus’s prepuce like it’s acid is...
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...
The Writing Cure
...in writing about it, be the fumbling earlier version of yourself who walked into whatever situation you are now sitting down to explain. You the protagonist—that is, the character inhabiting...
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...
more tired, more frustrated, more rotten
...and shape and edit an elegant argument saying some good clear thing about some version of all of that disgusting bullshit. I don’t think there is any clarity to be...
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...
Sickening Waste
...version has an uncanny force. Readers unfamiliar with the plot and characters will find Antigonick opaque, an open mouth screaming noiselessly on the page. What a small difference all our...
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...
Day Residue
...is a version of herself—and, in the 1990s, when she wrote about her life and times she adopted a light, comic tone; in an essay written on the eve of...
Après Nous, le Déluge
...threatens their civilization is only an anticipatory version of the “secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet” as well. This chilly vision of the end of the world—echoing the...
A Pueblo, a World
What from outside seems an extraordinary feat of organization is nothing more than the everyday forms of collective life