The Failure Addict
...insufficient when one can become notorious. Indeed, in a culture of entrepreneurial self-fashioning, mandatory sharing, and ritualized backslapping, failure may come to seem the true measure of accomplishment. You can...
Pop at the End
This is what the end of the world sounds like
None of This Is Written By Me
...you to take a look at. Also: the invention of the printing press, mass readership, public culture, etc. If this is simplistic, it’s not untrue. The idea that it’s necessary...
Social media and sensibility
...won't even know they have a choice about it. Another aspect of Pamela that can come across as boring is the way it must teach readers how to read novels...
A Snowpiercer Thinkpiece, Not to Be Taken Too Seriously, But For Very Serious Reasons
...as many black-masked, hatchet-wielding thugs, first class passengers who are ready, willing, and able to kill on command, and who apparently live for that command. Even the party-raver passengers turn...
No Kony Is an Island: Death and Profit in Central Africa
...balance of payments improvement. Photos taken from album "Gold mining in the Congo," at Funzu.com, with auto-generated ads. Photographer unknown. The state had to somehow both use this machine of...
Salvage, Without the Punk
...However, that passage through speculative culture of novels, films, comics, games, and television, salvage indeed appears predominantly as a content – a thing done, a kind of people who do...
Shaheen Bagh
...That people come together outside of institutionally mediated codes, that they share food, poetry, and music, that the demographic separations that undergird all technologies of government melt away, that the...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12
...texture and Black culture most certainly intersects with Whiteness." Eau de classics: This soap company sounds exquisite, taking inspiration from their scents from works of classic music and literature. Roses...
Looney Tunes
...a bunch of deer and wonder “which one likes country-punk, which one is the adventurous one, which is shy?” as they cross the road. Music is one way at getting...
Closing Statements
...Texas’s death chambers tried communicating something to us in their last moments. When we do receive their messages, we must consider what it means to receive them from their executioner,...
Kill Your Martyrs
...in the hospital before he succumbed to his injuries. His killers were apprehended, confessed, were fairly tried, and fairly convicted for the murder. They will and should spend the rest...
Yids
...“in the language and culture of Ashkenaz I found everything I had once assumed Judaism simply didn’t have: songs for every occasion, dances other than a zombified hora, and a...
Manual Override
...and Jean P. Vernant. Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, 38 We might also see camouflage in these terms, especially in its dazzle...
Trivial Pursuits
...provides an exhaustively researched historical survey of the culture of shoplifting, Rachel Shteir documents how the term has since evolved: In the mid-19th century, kleptomania was linked to melancholy and...
Post-coloniality Sells
...perform wedding ceremonies. To me as an author this present is an incredible moment. We are witnessing syncretic processes of African culture, as a result of clashing with Europe, is...