Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
Black Arts Boomerang
...can re-construe police brutality as "justifiable accidents", while community defense efforts are distortedly framed as resisting arrest and incitement to riot. Jordan’s question—how to settle scores, how to push the...
Un(der)seen Cinema: Tomato Is Another Day
...as an unparalleled bit of Dadaist pranksterdom and parody whose pun-heavy critique of Hollywood writing and directing styles, at six and a half minutes long and eighty-two years old, still...
Sunday Reading
...been closed." "The next morning my aunt called a doctor. A bit pointless, I thought, I will kill myself soon." "Putting on an awkward rhinoceros horn is more comfortable than...
A Sensor, Darkly
Bryant, who was named the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, is an air force veteran. His memoir originally appeared in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. The essay collection was edited by Lisa Parks and
Short Circuit
...(via Boston, Chicago, and Memphis) a bit over a decade ago, but Weintraub’s cinema is an altogether more sophisticated thing visually, playing on The New Talkies tired theme of youthful...
Requiem for My Potential Hotness [Guest Post]
...my crush’s girlfriend wore. I compulsively plucked my eyebrows until they were gone. But like the slim person who looks back at old photos and thinks, I can’t believe I...
Beyond Avant-Garde
...bother to look at. And some commentators might be inclined to regard early adopters of social-media apps as avant-garde consumers, seizing on new possibilities for gratification, evasion, and status distinction....
Beautiful Weapons
...mechanical zones followed by scavenging a hideous trashscape for spare parts to repair my broken Hitachi and cum my brains out. I’ve made a game about communicating nonverbally with alien...
Dans le Rouge
...Some students are beginning to reason, quite understandably, that if they're going to be arrested anyway, they may as well be a bit more ambitious. It’s just as easy, after...
The Other Foot
...parents. Apparently they come from money. Lots and lots of money. It doesn’t give kids a good message, you know? Who can afford a pair of designer shoes when you’re...
Feral Memes
...interspersed with dozens of images of cats, often posing with ISIS militants. These tweets were written in humorous LOLspeak and identified their subjects, with a bit of clever wordplay, as...
Scam or Die
The New Inquiry editors discuss last year’s so-called “Summer of Scam” and its endless aftermath
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 21
...It doesn’t always help to be intelligible I have a dream of all people living out the end times squeezing every little bit of joy out of every...
Bodies of Water
...left side of his skull, the bit behind the ear with a bullet mark… a few teeth and bits of bones and a foot. When a foot, or a piece...
The Carceral State
...are prisons gender segregated, but quotidian practice inside mandates the group fantasy of gender normativity. This is a bit of a different argument than suggesting that we only pay attention...