Play Fair, Run Fast, and Smile for the Camera
...complaints about parents who have turned this into a way of life—a culture in which they and their children deserve rewards not for doing something special, but simply for being...
The Floral Is the Political
...their own culture whether it’s American culture or Western culture as a whole. If you look at Iranian culture then yes, I could say that every Iranian artist, however they...
Creative Tyranny
...of material culture for everyone, strengthening consumerism’s appeal as social communication and quasi-artistic expression. Social media intensify this, providing a low-barrier platform for people to disseminate their consumer behavior and...
Mexican Is Not a Race
Poet Wendy Trevino argues that a radical new Chicanx politics means forging an identity based on shared political struggle, not myths of racial homogeneity--an idea rooted in anarchist struggles along the Texas-Mexican border a century ago
Hate and Basketball
...of oppositional culture and sports: both celebrated for its power, and quarantined as being only aesthetically and/or athletically gifted. The oppositional culture developed and sold through commercial hip-hop and the...
"The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor" London book launch
...of Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor hosted by Ibraaz. The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor is a chronicle of a campaign at the forefront of a new wave of worldwide cultural activism....
Contemporary Scottish Friction
...Alasdair Gray Eden and After (1965-66) via Scottish National Gallery The coming Scottish independence vote has given new energy to the would-be national literary culture The crowd were...
Welcome to "Dietland": Beauty and Subversion
...tube, and another woman is nearly crushed to death by eyebrow pencils. Which makes sense, as beauty culture itself can be nearly as ludicrous: We put hot wax on our...
An Interview with George Scialabba
...the great neglected resources of European culture. I try to say why in the essay “Shipwrecked” in The Modern Predicament. Lawrence was a bit archaic and exotic; Christopher Lasch was...
Sewing Dissent
...staged a comeback." This comeback she christens the "New Domesticity," and it extends beyond handicrafts to encompass, among other things, "DIY foodie culture that has so many of us baking...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...for police killings, thousands rally on Avenida Brasil after last week's deaths at the hands of the BOPE (elite command unit of the Brazilian military police). [ G1 ] There...
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics
...and literary theory to bear on questions about scientific communication and culture. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of women and gender in science, technology,...
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
...of the few places where men can still write about love—yes, music, but I’m focused on writing at the moment. Speaking to my best friend, I comment that when it...
Recoil Operation
...than any other developed country,” with a chart featuring predictable comparisons to Japan, Austria, New Zealand, and others on the OECD list of Developed Nations. Though Mexico is certainly “developed”...
In Defense of Spontaneous Contestation and/or Beauty
...at a site he viewed as part of an 'exit culture' of Disneyfied commodity exchange. He bought various packaged commodities—toys and electronics and so forth—but instead of going home he...