Mass Authentic
...without any of the associated limitations or responsibilities. Goods that signify authenticity minister to such fantasies about community and individuality, positing consumers as generic and unique at the same time....
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...be a mistake to ignore this. So, getting into the question of “is this about the price of the bus” is childish. Of course, the fare hike was the sign...
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...fetishized characters, this "climax" give precedence to the material reality of the fantasy, to its objects both within their universe and in their function as generic signposts. The idealization that's...
Making Again, Making Against
...it a protest against the commodification of life or a siren call for paying full price. The price tag is what deceives because it perpetuates false value, confusing worth and...
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
Being Damien Hirst
...of the new generation are called to join in the carousel, or production-line, churning out their visionary, uncommodifiable commodities, which have acquired in the meantime a price tag in accordance...
Champagne Wishes and Crypto Dreams
Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?
Fossil Fools
...price of the fossil fuels, often to the point of very low profits for producers. In the coal business, where railroads often supplied the capital to start the mining companies,...
Healthy Boundaries
...typical of other online health forums, are by far the most common, appearing consistently from Facebook pages to threads on NetMums.com. However, while much of the discourse generated emphasizes shared...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
"It Continues Not To End": Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
...it, and which feels itself to be a problem to be solved, but for which no solution is possible. 90 poems were online by the end of March, and another...
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...tech industries that some adjacent word such as "hip" is needed to describe those online voices who proceeded to hate on Long and deem Hodgman to be the cool one....
The Scapegoating Machine
...that drive online abuse and scapegoating are also what give users a feeling of community on social media, its operators will be hard-pressed to rein them in, even if they...
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...online, among others. She's associate editor of the forthcoming book Women in Clothes . You can follow her on Tumblr and Twitter. ______________________________ "Perfume seemed part and...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...but of how the beauty industry works. "I’ve been told by retailers that black women don’t shop online. They said, ‘We can’t put your whole line on the website.’ I...