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...
Sunday Reading
...that teaches us quite a bit about organizing academic workplaces, organizing democratically, women in the labor movement, and organizing for respect, not just wages. Chris Hayes on undecided voters in...
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...
#stopcreating
...still gets regularly scandalized by age-old bouts of fraudulence, plagiarism, and hoaxes in ways that would make, say, the art, music, computing, or science worlds chuckle with disbelief. It’s hard...
Spectrum Order
...the individual — the reader — as the subject in need of care. The loss-of-innocence plot, like the Bildungsroman, is a technology of socialization. Its effect is a coming-to-terms with...
What Would a Busy Blogger Do?
...The time has come, the blogger said, to talk of many things—actually, just one, which is a need for a bit of time off. Specifically, time off without feeling...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 1)
...comfort reinforced status and class cohesion. Elite men of the most powerful poleis gathered on fragrant evenings in rooms especially designed for feasting. These rooms accommodated no more than eleven...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...is only being. A tree, for instance, is merely a bit of undifferentiated matter when it is unnamed. Strictly speaking, it is inaccurate to say “tree” or even “undifferentiated matter”...
War Comes Home for Dinner
...greens that can sit around without going bad both reduce food waste and the frequency of shopping trips. But unbridled efficiency comes with its own mix of risks and sacrifices....
Beauty Blogosphere 12.7.12
...with the Richard Cohen/James Bond "sexual meritocracy" bit, are we? Good. Then allow me to point you toward Ta-Nehisi Coates's piece on "democracy and the inalienable right to hit that."...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Core Values
..., a pale yellow-skinned apple splashed and striped with two shades of red, and the Cabbage-Head, a vigorous grower and good bearer whose flesh, though a bit coarse, was juicy,...
♫ Roxane ♫
...attorney or the magical negro—roles relegated to the background and completely lacking in authenticity, depth, or complexity.” Viola Davis calls these roles, “the fried-chicken special of the day” that “hold...
Arguing the Web (3): Post-Text
...passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.” Gibson’s wording is a bit extreme. What...