Don't Be a Stranger
...where a few dozen mostly twenty-somethings traded music recommendations and outlandish project ideas. At the time I was making stupid comedy videos and I’d share them with Urban Honking as...
come on, get it!
with Thom Donovan, Malik Gaines, Ethan Philbrick, Wikipedia and the Online Etymology Dictionary
Die 4 U
...that Lana Del Rey that sounds exactly like that glorious pretense. Her songs are, in essence, nostalgia for an old lie. The culture makes a dictum of authenticity and a...
Border Control
...long, using them both as subject and medium, and it seems like the wider culture is finally catching up to you. As a very early adopter, why do you think...
Yellow Fever
Desire is something that’s irrational, and often delusional.
What Happens in Girls Club
...is not an ideal time to get a lot of teaching done. Music from Dance Club wafted in from the vents as me and my co-teacher (a longtime friend) tried...
Variations on a Theme: #Ferguson
...situation was the car culture and the way cars were used in a few ways to confuse the police, block them and also just tie them up. West Florissant, the...
Against Students
...consuming subject who wants the wrong things, a student who is found wanting, is hard at work. She is how an idea of universal knowledge or universal culture can be...
Anger Management
...powerful that government officers are afraid to speak out against them. Their effect on Salvador’s culture has been similarly disastrous. Today, young boys regularly drop out of school to become...
On the Variety of Ways to Not Praise Charlie Hebdo
...secular state but a competing cultural system? This is what it is: a cultural system that brooks no competition. A believer has difficulty with the idea that their culture is...
Scary Negroes with Guns
...still more guns than police in the United States, which creates a violent gun culture all across the country and among black communities too. As a teenager walking one late...
Reign in Drool
...outer experience. Yet their dependence on concrete rules have created a culture disproportionately fond of logic. Players romance the poetry of the command prompt while ignoring the entropic ennui of...
Cooking Class
...years of writing The Austerity Kitchen, my blog about alimentary culture and history, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that some of the best food writing (in the United States,...
Little Magazines and the Conversation of Culture in America
...The New School for Social Research presents a conference called "little magazines & The Conversation of Culture in America," Thursday November 12 – Friday November 13 2015. The...
Model Behavior
...That kind of drag is what the beauty-industrial complex of advertising, magazines, makeover shows, and music videos are terrified by, and yes, it is queer, and yes, it is feminist....
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs