Death Immortalized
...galactic scale -- we ought to be able to detect. The idea of the Fermi Paradox, in brief, is that if our ideas about how common life is in the...
Teenage Screams
...bite at the hand that feeds. Though Coppola abandoned acting decades ago, that image of her seems etched onto the public’s retinas—44, yet forever the beloved only daughter, the indulged...
What Was the Child?
Childhood as we currently understand it emerged with 20th century capitalism, but as the distinction between labor and leisure is breaking down, so too is the concept of childhood
You're Not Pretty Enough
...the argument with her then-husband that the book's title comes from—uttered unbelievably (except totally believably) in the midst of discussions about his inattentiveness and infidelity—prettiness doesn't make much of a...
City Under Siege
...Cities Under Siege with a chapter about “countergeographies” that might be created to overturn this new military urbanism. The discussion comes a bit late in the game—on the order of...
Reparative compulsions
...effect: The activity distills these aspects of life into their elementary forms (namely, risk-based interaction, actuarial economic thinking, and compressed, elastic time) and applies them to a course of action...
Family Planning
...of Planned Parenthood, in a 1922 pamphlet entitled “The Woman Rebel.” It has stayed with us as a popular bit of anti-abortionist propaganda, illuminating the supposedly depraved underpinnings of family...
2. Consumed by Abstraction
...one another. The stock market. ICE is a bit more complex, or one level more abstracted, in that its principal business is to administrate the sales of derivatives. Derivatives, as...
Curls and the Patriarchy
...at least a bit, for I went back and watched part of the town hall debate to accurately report on what I myself saw in Crowley, and here it is:...
Sometimes a Suitcase is Just a Suitcase: On Pede Hollist's "Foreign Aid"
...on the long side, close to 10,000 words, the upper limit on the Caine Prize. When Kola complained, mildly, that “nothing explains the length of this work,” that’s what he...
Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
Double header
...shooter film, do have a bit in common. As a further application of this principle, Snow White & The Huntsman here shares double billing with its unofficial prequel, WET PAINT,...
Sunday Reading
...in Montreal Does Justin Trudeau really care about reconciliation? Kerim Friedman: US Army committed $6.5 trillion in accounting fraud in one year State Misogyny: France’s Colonial Unveiling History Against Muslim...
Particular Universals
...to be a bit of a hindrance anyway, as it can muddy the waters in terms of what we’re advocating for. As Nina Power wrote recently: “What is the relationship...
Loving Franko B
...share and explain why this inspires you... IT IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT obvious to me in the least bit... I don’t think he got Franko B. I certainly don’t think...
The American Studies Association Goes to Politics
...opinions about the American Studies Association, you should come to terms with the “New American Studies” which began (more or less) in the early nineties—as an insurgent effort to change...