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...
This Week In Art Crime
...• • • To fight rent prices and bring a bit of whimsy to the morning commute, an unknown New Yorker set up a cardboard living room on the N...
Knocked Out Loaded
...the party, and from only one unlucky partygoer: mythological threat to the affluent, self-actualized woman — although one that can be countered with more products. A lipstick that changes color...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
Psychology's One and Only Thesis
...which are invisibly etched all the tendencies of human behavior. When it comes time for him to write a novel, imagine him holding that crystal up to one eye and...
Race, Recognition, and Exotica
...even though I’m usually only called exotic by men, and usually when the context makes me think I’m being sexualized just the teensiest bit, there’s a part of me that...
This Week in Art Crime
...woke up the entire place was in darkness. It was just a bit eerie, being there all alone. I wandered around for 10 minutes looking for a security guard to...
Dark Pages
...he was. It’s an improvement, to be sure, but it responds to uncertainty with overconfidence and essentialism, as though all homosexuals were naturally more empathetic than their heterosexual counterparts. ***...
Reader's Digest
...on these items en route in order to spare himself the necessity of having to dine in the post house. For Balzac believed that by controlling both the menu items...
Sunday Reading: April 30, 2023
...became a regular feature at TNI, and it is in that same spirit of sharing motivated purely out of a desire to connect over some common impulse, interest, or learning,...
Beauty Blogosphere Break
...at the same time without growing roots at my computer.) So the Beauty Blogosphere is on hiatus for a bit longer. It will return—I love finding and curating these...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...Christmas pageant, 1930, plus witch. My parents raised me in the Methodist church, halfheartedly. The “halfhearted” part would come as no surprise to anyone seated within two...