The Albatross Around Johnny Depp's Brain
...Apparently Johnny Depp tried to recreate the top picture in portraying Tonto, and produced the bottom picture. Take a minute to observe his interpretation: photos via Entertainment Weekly. Jessica...
First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
...epic’s prodigious sway over the popular Hindu culture and its unique relationship to history has made this possible. In the West, one encounters the epic as a literary genre that...
Digital Dark Spaces
...is not essentially so different from the culture of cruising that bourgeois gay men created in public urinals and in the cloakroom at the House of Lords. Though the sex...
City of the Moon
...this pedigree. … We need to be very careful, we are turning into what we have always tried to resist. These guys are not only threatening us, they are informing...
World of Weathercraft
...seeding to aid agriculture and reservoirs is a common, though scientifically dubious, practice. Weather control is a common plot device in science fiction, showing up in films like The Avengers,...
The Mirror Stage
...before me. While the show is hailed as a rare coming-of-age musical about a lesbian protagonist, the novel also centrally portrays Alison’s struggle with her gender nonconformity in the wake...
Volume 30
...acceleration and its discontents, reactionary messaging in mass culture, the art and publishing world and their rituals, love as a problem, surveillance and affect, apps and neoliberalism. Essentially: how can...
A Connecting Thing
...religions, books and song. What if Parisians would see? What if U.S. Americans saw after Nine Eleven? Shunned their cowboy and sinister senators? Read and investigated, instead? Tried the guilty...
The Worst Hair Dryer in the World
...take at least six more weeks, because I'm lazy about the stupidest things—it got me thinking about how people might've tried to commodify hair before blow-dryers were around. (The first...
Beauty Blogosphere Summer Solstice
...tried yet—nay, products in general!—but when the goodie in question is a nail polish named after one of her favorite beauty bloggers, The Reluctant Femme, it's totally principled, right? Or...
Commuter Riots
...NFL commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, tried to replicate bucolic Sunday tailgate services at Arrowhead across the league, fueling a few fiery championship street riots in the process. A couple years after...
May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow
...themselves and tried to take control, visibly or secretly. What's of interest, then, in the text is neither their rather flat account of how "repressive society," that endlessly indistinct notion,...
Revolutionary Laughter
...novel almost every decade. He was friends with Albert Camus, Lawrence Durrell and Jean Genet and, although he wrote almost exclusively about Egypt, was firmly ensconced in Left Bank culture,...
The Selfless Man
...Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) by teaching him the art of the pickup, training him to dress fashionably, drink like an alpha male, and make woman-pleasing small talk. “Be better than...
Pont Blank
...I’ve tried to tell this story. For nearly two years, I’ve been sending versions of what follows into the most important photographic journals and magazines. As you might expect, the...
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft