The Paper Chase
...so wildly in price. But it’s simply wrong to imagine that the history of alternative currency begins with Bitcoin, and it’s potentially harmful to ignore the much more progressive, community...
On the Variety of Ways to Not Praise Charlie Hebdo
...conclusion. I also sympathize with what they are trying to do, which makes me a bit uncomfortable. The way efforts to be antiracist become racist in practice is the farce...
On Ladymags and Liberty
...Jack Palance." Cheese! Left: Autumn Whitefield-Madrano. Right: Jack Palance. * * * * * My sympathies in the Birmingham/Shape bit instinctively go to Birmingham, for reasons that are...
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
...to the Ancestors (2002,2008/2010) Léonora Miano’s Dark Heart of the Night (2005/2010) Edem Awumey’s Dirty Feet (2009/2011) Kossi Efoui’s The Shadow of Things to Come (2011/2013) Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady...
The Mile-Long Club: The Luxury of Eyelashes
...I found myself not “needing” eye makeup on most days, only wearing it to punch things up a bit. Normally I wear eyeliner and mascara every day, largely because it...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.9.13
...Gamble's annual report, including the head-scratcher that beauty is actually the company's least successful division—and grooming, i.e. manstuff, is its most lucrative. Plus, their advertising isn't as effective as it...
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
The Sonic Episteme
To use sound as a tool for theorizing and realizing a more just world, we can’t merely reform Western modernity; we must do something else entirely
Sunday Reading
...Historic NYC Photos The Debate over Student Loan Interest is Nothing But A Sideshow: "Keeping the cost of borrowed money a bit lower for one more year won't cure the...
The questioning of experience and the images of the Same
...then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the banana. And if the halves are divided again, each bit will be...
Sunday Reading
...the impulse to speak" "bloggers have reached the level of pop culture acceptance that comes w/ having a dog do their jobs for comedic effect" "since the election of Barack...
Consider the Humblebrag
...ego boost everyone knows about. You did something great (met a celebrity, got some kind of compliment, became temporarily important) and wanted to tell the world about your brief moment...
Red Planet
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
The White Market
...radar in a community overrun with the stuff and taken care of his chemo costs and family just fine. But what makes White more attractive than your garden-variety tweaker to...
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
...and hungry mirrors, when the stupid, irrefute fact of it had been staring us in the face all along, turning a bit in the saccharine wind of our breath, shimmering,...
En passant
...Tumblr, and that sounds a bit like what clueless commentators like me say about alt lit: It's a community of outsiders testing out new forms of affective bonds in social...