Econospeak
...and corporations doing, if not constantly “re-establishing themselves” as “market players?” These mantras have been the refrain of HR manuals for decades, but their crossover into pop culture has been...
That sisterhood. In that one life. Destroy one another.
...they were "ready for trial." except for procedural reasons the case was dismissed, and now the traffickers were plotting to kill him. so when an airplane crashed near buffalo, the...
You and Mark Aren't Friends
...become an international center of outrage once it becomes clear that the company’s innovations, as is so often the case, are destined to kill your privacy. Now Facebook has made...
On Rage and Swagger
...There are things that make us enraged, above all ways of death: when police kill unarmed teenagers, when states murder behind the veil of law, when bands of racists go...
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...advertisements consist of paid (“inauthentic”) endorsements, and there are now many places where advertisement and “authentic” comment are mixed up (Twitter streams, Facebook feeds). The claim that “false” endorsements on...
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
...EEK! In 2009, speculations that ??????? might attempt to kill Imp Kerr intensified. Intelligence officials warned that ??????? had arranged her "imminent physical elimination," in Manhattan, in this town,...
Death and the Maiden
...To move beyond the death drive would not restore an earlier state of things but kill the present one, including its division of life into two distinct genders. “Splintered fragments...
Special Victims
...of the defilement, rehabilitation, and revenge that high-grossing movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, and Gone have since employed. Recent films like Miss Bala and Martha...
Spring Break Forever
...no Samanthas, no Charlottes, no Mirandas Sarah Nicole Prickett Bikini, Kill Don't hate the slayer, hate the game Ayesha A. Siddiqi Booty Camp A former KIDS kid laments bad girl...
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
...mother who waits against the hateful desire to despise a black father in a world designed to kill him. Under Reaganite conservatism, the 80s were peak dad, inspiring our cover--the...
Blogs Round Up
...the idea that if we got rid of the objects themselves, the desire for them, the need for them, and the culture that is built around them and makes them...
Anatomy of a Dissection
...doesn’t belong there, so she tries to kill it, but only succeeds in cracking its shell. The injured roach sits in front of her with crumpling antennae and pus oozing...
Vol. 76 Editors’ Note: Assets
Just how much?
Body Mass Index
...from its heroine or its audience the typical range of video-game tasks. Unlike the action-movie or war-game hero, Bullock has nothing to shoot and no one to kill. Her task,...
A Guy Named Frank
...there’s a clear potential for monopolization. The enterprising, shirtless, teenaged stoner dealer only a text away could disappear entirely. And what then will happen to the culture of weed smoking,...
Daddy
...waits against the hateful desire to despise a black father in a world designed to kill him. Under Reaganite conservatism, the 80s were peak dad, inspiring our cover–the spirit of...