Permanent Display
...the cloth. That was an integral part of my identity. The hair in my face was a bit shamanic. In fact it added more constraints. I saw poorly and I...
Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
...contra-Internet because they reveal that social movements no longer necessarily see the Internet as a political horizon--it is, rather, about finding something else. This is where the commons comes in...
Artistic autonomy and subsumption
...means of self-abnegation, the alibi of using social media to make human capital is more effective. It better disguises the compulsion as productive, efficient. It masks the experience of this...
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
...But to say that the “market” exerts this malign influence of emotional alienation is a bit of a dodge. What Hochschild ends up exploring in The Outsourced Self is how...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
Noshing with Nomads
...in terms of unusually stressful events. I feel this fact palpably. Relieving my stress a bit is the fact that I’m headed for a boskier part of New England than...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
...establish our fame. So, as with all subversive statement, it is very much acknowledging the classical strcuture of dominance, only upsetting it a bit." It couldn't be unique to...
"Let Loose Your Tongue"
...had just published. I was interested in writing about the revolution, and this seemed different stylistically from most of the other literature that was coming out at the time. Plus,...
Naked Criticism
...In The Irresponsible Magician, Rebekah Rutkoff gets to the point. Her prose can be perplexing, but only because we are so used to our books coming with elaborate instructions that...
The Two Standards of Beauty
...in order to most do it for them. These two realms are mistakenly conflated, but they do have a good bit of overlap. Both tend to value youth, slimness, and...
Some covert wonder
...but totally unidentifiable piles huddled close for warmth. "Babe? You coming?" She took the pot of flame and dropped it into the half-full sink. And if she had stayed she...
Too Foreign
...turning point in the novel: Sousa: “At this moment, now, a doubt overtakes me. God, or whatever You are called: I now ask only one bit of help: but it...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...Christmas pageant, 1930, plus witch. My parents raised me in the Methodist church, halfheartedly. The “halfhearted” part would come as no surprise to anyone seated within two...
Beauty Blogosphere Break
...at the same time without growing roots at my computer.) So the Beauty Blogosphere is on hiatus for a bit longer. It will return—I love finding and curating these...
Come Down With Fire
...led our hapless narrator to possibly some sort of commune dwelling, where he hears someone's — a roommate’s? lover’s? — sinister laughter “in another room” while she cooks up and...
"Mad Men" Beauty Musings
...even though the crude comments at the meeting were aimed almost entirely at Joan. The women are clawing at each other on the surface, but the way in which they...