A guillotinable mass of lame
...station, I heard an actually beautiful act: coming off a carefully non-exciting exhaltation to take Him into your heart, they played U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Beauty Blogosphere 12.7.12
...with the Richard Cohen/James Bond "sexual meritocracy" bit, are we? Good. Then allow me to point you toward Ta-Nehisi Coates's piece on "democracy and the inalienable right to hit that."...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...is only being. A tree, for instance, is merely a bit of undifferentiated matter when it is unnamed. Strictly speaking, it is inaccurate to say “tree” or even “undifferentiated matter”...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 1)
...in order to enjoy al fresco their swallow’s tongues and other delicacies. The most luxurious dining spaces bred ease and amazement in equal measure. Triclinia in Pompeii featured fountains from...
What Would a Busy Blogger Do?
...The time has come, the blogger said, to talk of many things—actually, just one, which is a need for a bit of time off. Specifically, time off without feeling...
The Ellipsis That Told the Tale
Until 1969, there were several attacks on the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno during the student riots in Germany. This story takes place 30 years later, when the roots and conflicts that fueled the incidents are still being felt in a daughter who is reassembling fact and fiction dating back to 250 AD in an attempt
Beauty Blogosphere 5.9.13
...not testing on animals) have quietly changed their policies in order to sell in China, where animal testing is required. Just companies like Estee Lauder, Avon, and Mary Kay, no...
Rootless and Ruthless
...and shopping matter so little to a global elite determined to grind every last bit of profit out of ordinary people before the next big crash. It’s all right, though,...
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
...IN CONCENTRIC RINGS, HANG IN SPARKLING COUNTERPOINT TO AN IRON FRAME THAT BEARS THE MARKS OF THE WELDER'S TORCH. AVAILABLE IN 3-, 5- AND 7-RING SIZES. We had been horribly,...
Consider the Humblebrag
...so they always think I’m speeding but I’m not!! Then they let me go!” There’s the celebrity encounter: @oprah: “OMG! Just had a SURPRISE date with Jackie Jackson. My teen...
The questioning of experience and the images of the Same
...then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the banana. And if the halves are divided again, each bit will be...
Sunday Reading
...border enforcement, which Massey characterizes as a waste of money at best and counterproductive at worst. There are indeed more undocumented Mexicans living in the United States than there were...
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Got No Shame, Got No Pride
...it proposes and dangerously represents jouissance as a mode of ascesis. So the danger zone — really a sexual counterpublic, in Michael Warner's sense — is dangerous only to the...
“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.