Inessential No. 3
Inessential No. 1 and No. 2 debuted as an installation in "Between the Walls" at Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in...
Black Liberation Theory: Insurgent Philosophy & the Black Radical Legacy @ Brecht Forum
...Fugitive ‘being’ 6-W.E.B. DuBois, Double Consciousness & ‘problematic’ Subjectivity 7-Ida B. Wells, Lynching & the Normative Gaze of Established Power 8-Richard Wright & Existential Outlaw Subjectivity 9-Malcom X & Emancipatory...
Who Can You Trust?
...visibility has enabled the company to make names, both real and imagined, a standard part of the online experience. Visitors can email [email protected] to schedule online or in-store appointments with...
Talking Like a “Princess”: What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
...Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT Press, 2014) and Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017). She can be found on Twitter @merylalper and online at merylalper.com....
We gather around a hole, and though the fingers are worn to stubs in holding fast through the storm, still, thank God, bloody still the hole is...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12
...down? Pocket change: Shine.com breaks down exactly how much it costs to look like Jennifer Aniston (cloning not included). The grand total? $141,037. Girl in Front of Mirror, Pablo Picasso,...
Muckrakers, Inc.
...asked him what his college mascot was. “I went to Brooklyn College,” he said. “So, the gefilte fish.” Send your thoughts to [email protected] Whatever your politics—and mine, I admit, aren’t...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in mind that although she tried to dress and dance like poor Afro-Brasileras, as a white woman she never would have had to carry a fruit basket on her head....
The Paper Chase
...Michael Hudson as his economic advisor, tried to evangelize MMT ideas during a presidential campaign, to no avail. Even when Paul Krugman addresses MMT, which he does, rarely, he oscillates...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.7.12
...the solution, just as banning photo retouching does little to address the root concerns it's meant to address. What the solution is, I don't know. Glad Brigitte tried; unsurprised it...
Sunday Reading
..."Art could, by prefiguring the ideal culture, push society into the future." Linda Rodriguez: “Fiddling With Freedom: Solomon Northup’s Musical Trade in 12 Years a Slave” “It’s a fascinating process...
The Hair Back There
...hard you tried, nothing could de-kink a person’s kitchen.” The kitchen meant resistance. The kitchen saw the options available to make it "tame," and it refused them. It would be...
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...my field notebook, setting it aflame inside the bathroom of her suite. She said she had not tried anything new, but she had teased the ex-beau about the possibility: A...
M and A
...an overarching Headless-style endeavor. This one seeks to complete the 18th century work of August Nordenskiöld—an amateur alchemist who tried create gold with the ultimate aim of devaluing it—within today’s...
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
...tried very hard to do; at best, your omissions and failures might not be glaring. But that’s it, that’s the best case scenario, to fail not so badly. There’s no...
Gamifying Beauty
...few errant sounds—but it couldn’t compare to the afternoon I spent teaching myself to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on ukelele.) Enter beauty apps, which mimic acts that fall somewhere...