A Bit Peckish
...know, of course. "Norman Bates: No, not really. Anyway, I hear the expression 'eats like a bird' ... it-it's really a fals-fals-fals-fals-fals-ity. Because birds really eat a tremendous lot. But...
Reacting to Reactions
...believe that the News Feed inspires us with a series of real feelings, when in fact we are suspending whatever complicated feelings we might have for the relief of just...
Dominate
...News Feed and like buttons led to a company culture in which personality traits and experiences needed a "proof of concept" through appropriate metrics before being embraced as cool. As...
Open Wide
...the commons. Are digital commons and urban commons doomed to feed the hand that bites them? Perhaps not. Among all the contradictions of the commons, Harvey identifies one that provides...
Sunday Reading
...they are not the center of everyone else’s universe" googlepoetics.com soundsjustlike.com adultcatfinder.com zunguzungu: Currently reading Lorraine Adams' Harbor. Whiteness and Tokenism on the Runway Collapsing Factories and the “End Death...
To Sit on a Throne of Teeth, Graced With a Crown of Teeth
...our real negative energy on popular cinema that is immediately “objectionable”? Isn’t this a bit like slapping the hand that feeds you, even if the food isn’t quite as good...
Trans Historical Narratives
...the word. You can ’ t feed mostly upon yourself and sustain enough energy to live, that ’ s always going to be counter-productive. The process of writing about oneself...
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
...endearment. The Paris Opera Ballet commissioned a documentary about Doisneau from Bel, a "low-rank" dancer a week away from retiring after a 20-year career. The evening of her last performance...
Sunday Reading
...globalization such that they’ve begun to ignore geography" hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com; tweetpairing.tumblr.com; wtfevolution.tumblr.com; actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com T.F. Charlton: "So, what was Stonewall?" - NPR's erasure of trans women from the Stonewall narrative. Interrogating the...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...(through coming together to look differently, elsewhere, more precisely, and more furious) is that difficult something. A cinema worth its salt could do much worse than to dedicate its next...
Where the Hell Do You Think You Are?
...Jewry, socialism, homosexuality etc. When Hynkel dances so lightly, so comically, with the entire world hanging in the balance of every gesture, it underlines that power experiences itself as freedom,...
Seeing Stars
...Courtesy artificialgallery.co.uk MAY1ZZZ, lilo Lindsay Lohan fanpop.com Taranenko, Rihanna, 2011 DeviantArt.com Brothers De La Motte, Paris Hilton’s selfie, Undated imsoqueer, Mary-Kate, 2011 DeviantArt.com Cameron Gray, Oops...I did it again, 2007...
Blue Skies
...virtually useless in maintaining even the weakest vision of accountability. In contrast to the strict controls that have been developed by departments over time to store material evidence, Evidence.com seems...
'Tis the Season: The Beheld Gift Guide
...keeps on giving. (I also sort of want to do my part to reclaim the flask for women; the "Flask Gift Set for Women" at eflask.com isn't quite cutting it.)...
Enigma Deviations
...14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do? (1:58:31 PM) [email protected] : Tired of being tired (2:17:29 PM) bradass87: ? (6:07:29 PM) [email protected]:...
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...and heightens his sense of specialness. Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos. He "may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen." Photograph:...