Death Immortalized
...galactic scale -- we ought to be able to detect. The idea of the Fermi Paradox, in brief, is that if our ideas about how common life is in the...
Reparative compulsions
...effect: The activity distills these aspects of life into their elementary forms (namely, risk-based interaction, actuarial economic thinking, and compressed, elastic time) and applies them to a course of action...
A Detrimental Education
Zaina Alsous talks with Eli Meyerhoff about his book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World.
Family Planning
...of Planned Parenthood, in a 1922 pamphlet entitled “The Woman Rebel.” It has stayed with us as a popular bit of anti-abortionist propaganda, illuminating the supposedly depraved underpinnings of family...
2. Consumed by Abstraction
...one another. The stock market. ICE is a bit more complex, or one level more abstracted, in that its principal business is to administrate the sales of derivatives. Derivatives, as...
Beauty Blogosphere, Ides of March
..."I was wearing my second-nicest tights and a bit of makeup and holding a recorder, and hence appeared old enough and professionally polished enough to be someone they felt the...
The Stages of Not Going on T
From Something That May Shock And Discredit You
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
...the New York Times, a glitch? Or were America’s liberals simply more comfortable imagining that misogyny, racism, and xenophobia hadn’t been so deeply programmed into American political life? If we...
We Can Do It!: Rosie the Swiffer
...With No Name you're carrying? In other words: Rosie the Riveter was a bit of propaganda created to refashion the idea of conventional femininity. Which is exactly how Procter...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
...asking Mr. Gorbachev to put back that wall. They could at least have taken it down slower or even tried dressing it up a bit: Hang some art, give it...
When Blogger Comes Marching Home
...clothes, and it could affect my level of comfort in my own body. I'm not talking being artifically slim; I've found my "happy weight," and when I began writing the...
Sunday Reading
...the impulse to speak" "bloggers have reached the level of pop culture acceptance that comes w/ having a dog do their jobs for comedic effect" "since the election of Barack...
Hunger Gamesmanship
...and comfortably could now be saved by the factory owner, or spent on himself. Of course, he still needed workers to manage the machines. But only unskilled workers, and not...
The Difference between Chéri and Eternity
...an account book, naked near the fountain, naked in Lea’s brass-laden bed. Chéri is naked wearing Lea’s pearl choker: “It looks every bit as good on me as it does...
So French
...The eternally moisturized Frenchwoman. (By loki11, via Wikimedia Commons) The Frenchwoman's beauty routine. (Because there's just the one woman - rich, Parisian, works in fashion - and...
Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
...The particularity of swagger’s performance lies in its combination of material signifiers of wealth, particularly designer-brand clothing or jewelry, with bodily gestures or attitudes of defiance, as in the strut...