Being Damien Hirst
...seem to suggest that you are critical of the huge premium placed on art-objects, and you describe yourself as a non-profit artist. Your site and your Twitter feed are full...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...Carl E. Stranz. ...To Toe... Pachyderm pedi: Elephant pedicure video. (Why doesn't someone feed me apples when I get a pedicure?) ...And Everything In Between: Digital ladies: L'Oréal is launching...
Escape From Minus World
...money in the form of a new credit-card account. There was $50 toward a Buy.com purchase, and $25 off from Amazon, each of which seduced me into stupid purchases that...
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...machine is the dream of each contemporary state. To feed it the children of the world is the privilege of empire. The formal phase of the War on Terror died...
Hi Haters!
...ATTENTION ECONOMY AS FRAMEWORK All these hipsterized efforts at cool creation feed into what’s sometimes figured as “the attention economy.” Like microfame, this metaphor is problematic — but I think...
Digressions of an Opium-Eater
...is a book about the poorest of the poor prostituting themselves to feed an addiction that is slowly destroying them, and yet it is suffused with joy and vitality. Here,...
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
...xoJane.com (after failed attempts to resolve her drug addiction) and subsequently joined Vice as their “pills and narcissism” correspondent with a column titled “Amphetamine Logic.” As writers buzzed about Marnell’s...
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...on her research and paid close attention to the feeding schedule, diet, and growth of her jellies. Many of her published findings in the Irish Naturalist surprised the biology community,...
Personal Ads
...“Bound 2” on Ellen DeGeneres's daytime talk show reminds us all, once again, that he's a genius. For the first few days, when it was exclusively streaming on ellentv.com, that...
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
"Fractals" by Joanna Walsh: Short Story and Giveaway
...Walsh is a writer, illustrator, and artist. She draws and writes for The Guardian, The Times, Metro, The Idler, FiveDials, 3:AM, Berfrois.com, Necessaryfiction.com, and The White Review, amongst others. She...
Fact Check!
...a blog-turned-book, regrettheerror.com, and has a column on Poynter.org. Silverman calls fact-checking the "new American pastime" and is a serious and measured commentator: He appears genuinely concerned with setting the...
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
...and civics to green card holders. Her writing has appeared in Time.com, Atlas Obscura, Untapped Cities, and Hazlitt. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of...
The Science of What Makes Pain So Personal
...(Palgrave, 2014). Lorraine Boissoneault has previously written for The Atlantic, Hakai, LitHub, Nautilus, Mental_Floss, and SmithsonianMag.com. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of women and...
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs