Data Streams
...the Intercept. It’s a single frame of scrambled video imagery, and I tried to connect that with some of the metaphors that the analysts themselves use to describe the job...
Permanent Display
...autonomy, does it reflect also on privacy? I tried to introduce a certain questioning into public space. By working on people’s gaze with the practice of “hijabizing” in the subway,...
My Gay Shame, or, How Patriarchy Stole Sex
...to be anonymous, I wanted my own desire and not to be only desire’s object. I know this is a wildly optimistic reading of what gay sex culture promises women,...
Lady Wranglers
...all levels, and I’ve been increasingly curious about where this pernicious idea came from, how people have tried to address it, and why it persists. This semester, I’m teaching a...
Symbolic Threats
Flag worship hides the violence and division that truly shape a nation
People Sorters
...ban” for the past nine months, this kind of xenophobia was no surprise. But an interesting detail emerged as journalists tried to determine how Trump’s off-the-cuff policy proclamations might actually...
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...
#JustineHasLanded
...and Steve are a “we” together—Justine Sacco’s joke became a greasefire because she tried to perform both sides of the play, to be both the minstrel and the straight man,...
Variations on a Theme: Forgotten Terrorisms
...1870s, was not tried out in France. Instead, assassination became the principal weapon of revenge against the bourgeoisie and the figureheads of the State. The first wave of attempted assassinations...
Lost in the Supermarket
...the supermarket. The aisles were crowded with evening shoppers. There was Muzak. I slid into the warm colors and the clicks of the cash registers. I tried to remember near...
The Suit
...time; it is both correct and uninspiring. It needn’t have given me pause, except the intellectual seemed troubled, too. In the essay’s closing passages, he tried to imagine another way...
Bitter Medicine
...medicine for privileging the study of physiology while vainly ignoring the “practical” art of healing; in his Organon der Rationellen Heilkunde, Hahnemann writes: Physicians no longer tried to see diseases...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
"Against Literary Passports: the Many Languages of African Literature" (Conference Paper)
...continent’s cultures and societies, it’s important to think about the kinds of diversity that the colonial mind could not comprehend, and sought to stamp out. For the British and the...
This Week in Art Crime
...call on the french government to do the right thing and listen to our petition that we have sent to the ministers of culture, foreign relations and justice." (via)...
Masstige and Bargain Beauty
...knowing that I’ve tried less expensive brands and that the high-ish price actually buys quality in this case. What nonfinancial rewards are most likely to drive your own beauty purchases?...