Celluloid Coven
...evening and about The Craft: being just a little bit younger and less experienced than everyone, feeling excited but uncertain of myself, full of yearning, covetous of the fashion, yearning...
Centrifugal Women
Yūko Tsushima’s novel of a mother on the margins
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...services were never really a revolutionary tech product at all? What if the major labels really needed everybody to think that for a little bit because they owned equity in...
Socializing the Dark Web
...media, so that’s what the common population think it is all about. Usually when I mention Tor to people, they almost physically back away from me, expecting me to be...
#JustineHasLanded
...common (as one can get malaria by simply being in an area where infected mosquitoes are likely to bite you). Which is the mis-statement that the “Just kidding. I’m white!”...
Turn Down for What?
...In imagining a homogenized future labor force, accelerationism ignores how capital opportunistically sustains difference to survive Communists are not supposed to like capitalism. If there’s one thing everyone knows...
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
...how many ways and how swiftly an institution moves to protect a violent man from a bit of a reputation pickle. Later, you will be protesting with other students who...
Built to Last
...economy and they do have a slight sense of loose change within the economy, possibly, that they might well have a bit more money to spread around, and they might...
Play Fair, Run Fast, and Smile for the Camera
...its spectators that for a few hours, they leave their houses, sharpen their concentration, and put in a little bit of effort too. Randolph Bourne, speaking of the Anglo-Saxon “sporting...
Dissecting the Frog
...jokes, who laughs, and who is expected to remain silent). It also calls attention to community tensions — information that is every bit as revealing as uncontested group norms. While...
The Lossless Self
...genres, listeners were asked to select the highest quality version of each song from among three of the same recording encoded at different bit rates. How I yearned to ace...
Loving the Alien
...the right word here—…want, in short, to liberate themselves.” Attalian composition seems like a mishmash of different philosophical concepts: there’s a little bit of Herbert Marcuse’s idea of “narcissistic” eros...
A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
...time, facing scenarios every bit as complex as their white counterparts. The end of some long-running white sitcoms like Seinfeld made way for new post-Friends millennium favorites such as How...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...of hate. It bears an enormous amount in common with Farocki’s films, albeit shot through with a bitter jag of melancholy. There’s a moment in it where Anders recounts a...
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
...that American television birthed, is there any as famous as this? None comes to mind. Berkley splays open Jessie’s anxieties in this scene; it’s a bit of committed, earnest acting...
Wifey Status
...of two things: that violence is inseparable from domesticity, and that domesticity is glamorous. The lyric “get a little bit suburban and go crazy” has a much different meaning for...