Ramadan Diaries: Analysis
...the idea of Rumi as a historical figure lodged itself into my thoughts. His name is often casually mentioned (a bit too casually) in conversations about mindfulness, or some other...
Picture Pluperfect
...now consider us, positioning ourselves precisely away from the complexities of reality and staring into our glowing, well-connected digital Claude-glass screens. This is contrary to the belief that the Internet...
Alone Again Or
...bit creepy. He leaves her with a present: a colorful beanie with a visor. But there are no womp womp sound effects; the story closes with, “She had no idea...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.13.12
...vaguely "empowering" but that, in truth, is anything but—and that caters more to a male fantasy of female power than women's actual fantasies of their own power. Wee bit of...
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...