Games of Truth
...art practice, another tried and true mode of trolling. In the February 29, 1984, lecture, Foucault connects performance to "the consensus of culture" and parrhesia to art: The consensus of...
Paths to Gory
...a commodity in a culture oriented around inaction, marketed to people who know the chances that they would end up the necessary sacrifices to ending that culture. The point is...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Gendered Observation: The Contribution of Women to the Astronomical Diaries of Mesopotamia
...the Astronomical Diaries, or if there is even value to searching for them, can rewrite a domain of Mesopotamian culture where gender is traditionally assumed male or forgotten entirely. The...
Interview with Kate Zambreno
...in dismantling the idea of genius. I think that this sort of depression can come out of the culture. And I think it has something to do with how girls...
Welcome to Life as a Stepford Wife: The Politics of Self-Care in the 19th Century
...| Creative Commons It would be almost a decade before beauty products would be mass-produced and readily available through mail order. In the meantime, beauty culture was maintained by women’s...
A Cute Idea
...their own threat: “I’ll fuckin’ weaponize your territory.” CENTER JENNY Trecartin’s combination of cute and menacing is smartly attuned to contemporary visual culture, but his jibes at a war—oddly singular,...
Curb Your Moralia
...invested in the plot device of character development, Curb understands that endurance in the culture industry is achieved through seriality. In Curb's persistent caricature of Larry David, the incredibly rich...
Meat Market
...In Ethnicity Inc. anthropologists John and Jean Comaroff observe that “to the extent that the commodification of culture is refiguring identity, it is doing so less as a matter of...
Fame Shame
...care that once felt radical, and by what, inevitably, gets lost through their absorption into dominant and marketable culture. I’m not sure we can profess our commitment to radical community...
Dissecting the Frog
...community. These community standards may then be placed in the context of the larger culture, thus revealing as much about the latter as it does about the former. Gabriella Coleman’s...
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
...ideal condition – that of the tabula rasa. Around the same time and within its own borders, America perfected a culture of tabula rasa in mass production – automobile transportation,...
Manufactured Response
...I had never once received e-mails from: “Concerns about Japan.” “Checking in.” “Japan chaos.” “Is your family okay?” Nothing from my parents. Chaos? I sat down again and did a...
Stage Boundary Songs
...[l]Stage Boundary Songs, a mix by DJ Rupture, Filastine, & Nova Ruth, 54 min[/l] We live, sleep, dream, and die atop mass graves. Terror and lies prevent us from...
Sunday Reading
...them to be able to kill. From the reclaimuc archives: The police state in Europe vs. the police state in the US. White House petition calling for gun control legislation...
Lost in the Supermarket
...prescient: “Things have an ugly look still. No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in...