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May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 25, 2013

...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,...

Zunguzungu

"Against Literary Passports: the Many Languages of African Literature" (Conference Paper)

By Aaron BadyAugust 7, 2014

...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...

Essays & Reviews

Fail Worse

By Ned BeaumanFebruary 9, 2012

...Workweek by Timothy Ferris: “ ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the...

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Bitter Medicine

By Jack KahnJanuary 28, 2016

...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...

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The Suit

By Miranda TrimmierJune 25, 2012

...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...

Socialism and/or Barbarism

The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 3

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 22, 2012

...they always? They had a good laugh, a real hearty one. My own chest bloomed, in huge black stellar flowers and all their usual barbs, and I tried to swallow...

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The Mirror Stage

By Meredith TalusanJuly 23, 2015

...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...

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoJuly 20, 2012

...at the end of the day, I "talk like a girl," and I see no reason to reconfigure. In fact, when I've tried to reconfigure and not be so damned...

The Beheld

Values, Stereotypes, and Big Feelings: Compliments, Part II

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoJune 28, 2012

...recognize that it has value. Otherwise, the compliment isn’t complete.) The consequence here is that compliments can tell us a good deal about what we as a culture actually value....

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Can’t See the Wood for the Trees

By Malcolm SangerAugust 9, 2022

Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.

Shines Like Gold

Reserection

By imp kerrSeptember 25, 2012

...now occasionally a human ashtray. T-SYMMETRIC: “i can’t decide if it’s cool or gross.” CHIQUITA: “the guy eats butts!” INGRID: “he tried his whole life to think his way into...

South/South

The Invented Persians

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJanuary 21, 2012

...mocking his death): As they tried to arrest more and more people the group of strong and defiant Palestinian women we were with threw their bodies over the men they...

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Mind Games Forever

By Rob HorningJune 24, 2013

...ways the counterculture was domesticated and commercialized over the course of the 1960s, redirecting the revolutionary impulses aroused by contempt for the system at one’s own personality, which, in the...

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Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing

By Jarrod ShanahanMarch 15, 2017

...Price Is Right was on in the dayroom. I tried to play along, but just kept thinking about how this place is wrong.” Lil Wayne’s Gone ‘Til November is, in...

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Symbolic Threats

By A. Maureen TantSeptember 15, 2017

Flag worship hides the violence and division that truly shape a nation

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The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift

By Danielle KingDecember 9, 2015

...times I tried to convince them that their meal came to $8.47, they could not trust me, and steadfastly refused to take the correct change from a $20. I ended...