Love Worth Fighting For
...of any particular other person. One is simply emotionally competent, in the abstract. Thus online dating preconceives any potential intimacy as generic. But in reality, intimacy reveals itself in unpredictable...
Post-Exotic Novels, Nศฏvelles, and Novelists: Part One
...We have come to understand that our idea of the novel was liberated from these generic constraints, which for that matter were rather relative since that label comprises so many...
Social Media, Social Factory
...to produce cool. The online self thereby seems an opening rather than a precluding of possibilities. Having our communicative โvirtuosityโ exploited seems like authentication of the selfโs social value. Commercial...
Judging Books by Their Covers
...the book, even though the $9.99 price tag was more than reasonable. For the last few years I have been a big fan of the Penguin Books Great Ideas series....
Devils in Red Dress
...because they do not put [women] in an advantageous position on the marriage market.โ The online dictionary of Xinhua, the state news agency, notes that leftover word here, sheng, is...
So You Think Youโve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...American Artist, A Refusal (2015), Online performance, Ongoing In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the...
Ambitious Conditions: Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go"
...something: she knew that the character she sees on the page would not have acted the way she does. But where does such confidence come from? When do we ever...
Massively Open Online Police State
...kind of war without end world destabilization that today's patriotic consumers demand. We have to do better. Massive online surveillance is not new. As techno-utopian Evgeny Morozov has demonstrated, governments...
Power Loss
...a personalized list of โsolutionsโ that have been tested and approved by NOAH experts. Through a partnership with Zeb Gear, everything NOAH recommends is available to buy online. In addition...
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...ignoring each other as they engage with their iPhones; the compulsive sharers on social networks who leave no private experience unmediated and recapitulated online; our own restless oscillation between email...
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warrenโs felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Digital Dark Spaces
...no longer exists. But there is perhaps too strict a delineation in Fox's descriptions of the online world (cyberspace) and IRL (meatspace), not least when it comes to risk. The...
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...science over tradition and superstition, instrumental reasonโs order over unruly emotion and intuition, rational mechanistic dominion over chaotic nature, and the autonomous self over community. The subjugated half of this...
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. ย ______________________________ ย ย "Perfume seemed part and...
Why These Tweets Are Called My Back
...online spaces, show up to and engage in person with a movement that has ignored all our best efforts at talking back to it. We are called upon to physically...