The Accidental Audience
...the curated kludge site ThereIFixedIt.com, which even put its own watermark on the image. Graham’s sculpture simultaneously evokes the high-art Dadaist tradition of assemblage as well as the pop culturally...
Resistance in the Neoliberal City
...rent housing in the United States. But even putting nostalgia aside, it was not always this way. The second coming of dot-com wealth, venture capital, and neoliberal development has eviscerated...
City Hunger
...Spreads via Codex99.com A 15th century book shows the entanglement of architecture and appetite ARCHITECTURE has a limited vocabulary for hunger. Predicated on sets of codes and reined...
Blogging the Caine Prize 2012
...(drop me a line if you want to take part: aaron A@T thenewinquiry DO.T com). Drum roll! The 2012 shortlist (these are links to full pdfs of the stories): May...
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
...and civics to green card holders. Her writing has appeared in Time.com, Atlas Obscura, Untapped Cities, and Hazlitt. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of...
How to Win Tinder
...such as Match.com or eHarmony require. There is no “matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match.” You are your own matchmaker. And because Tinder is so streamlined and visual it can...
Why Witches Can’t Have It All
...First in Griffin Dunne’s 1998 adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s sister-sister toil-and-trouble novel, Practical Magic, and again in 2005, in Nora Ephron’s meta-movie-update of the beloved ’60s and ’70s sitcom, Bewitched,...
Sunday Reading
...of purloined bitcoin that’s floating around out there, not one Satoshi of it has been spent" lisafrankfurtschool.tumblr.com cosmarxpolitan.tumblr.com Jacob Remes: Wearing more The sad and rich life and death of...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)
...Next: Alphabet of an Unknown City, N-Z Alphabet of an Unknown City, 2018, commissioned by Belladonna* in December 2017 (editioned chapbook available for purchase), written in Catalonia in January...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
...Previously: Alphabet of an Unknown City, A-M Alphabet of an Unknown City, 2018, commissioned by Belladonna* in December 2017 (editioned chapbook available for purchase), written in Catalonia in January...
Protected: Creating a Blog
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Social media and sensibility
...more efficacious than material luxuries in providing pleasure. The competency to extract affect from texts becomes a core part of the middle-class habitus, a challenge to the aristocratic mode of...
"Fractals" by Joanna Walsh: Short Story and Giveaway
...Walsh is a writer, illustrator, and artist. She draws and writes for The Guardian, The Times, Metro, The Idler, FiveDials, 3:AM, Berfrois.com, Necessaryfiction.com, and The White Review, amongst others. She...
Queens Live @ The Kitchen
...of shehashadit.tumblr.com Kartik Nair is doctoral candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation on low-budget horror films in 1980s India. Kartik is an...
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs
Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12
...and potato chips! Oh, criminy. Who doesn't eat weird post-breakup? I recall being unable to stomach anything other than buttered toast after finding a then-boyfriend's active profile on Match.com (some...