Pinterest and the acquisitive gaze
...culture emerging in James's time was a "world constructed by and for a consuming vision," an "imagined world ... in which imagination itself strives to gild, glaze, and ultimately commodify...
Playing Outside
...weirdos in the late 1970s and early 1980s founded what would become gaming culture. Rogue programmers and witty, countercultural Steve Jobs types built awkward, secretive text adventures and later led...
The Lives of Others
...mankind, of which he imagines himself the archetype: “We live in a culture that is completely mediated and artificial, rendering us (me, anyway; you, too?) exceedingly distracted, bored, and numb.”...
Queering the Void
...camp aesthetics, mirroring the queer socialities captured in Paris Is Burning. The Real Housewives can, in this way, be imaged as an estranged and commercial stepchild of drag culture. Their...
Intimacy as Text; Twitter as Toungue
...admit in writing. In another throwback to an older literary culture, confessional and diary forms have become hugely popular since we all went and hid behind our computer screens. Confession...
Namaste Inc.
...boost tourism. The Ministry promoted not only local attractions; it also presented a carefully constructed image of the country and its culture. For example, a promotional campaign featuring renowned Bollywood...
Hillbilly Ethnography
...of industry is not responsible for “a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it,” that reacts “to bad circumstances in the worst way possible”: with hedonism, materialism,...
The Critic in Culture
...The role of the critic in culture: guardian/gatekeeper of the gift...
The Soft Boys
...the complex and varied needs of human beings who consume culture. Peyton has noted that she gravitates toward male subjects who “objectify themselves, which is a female trait.” These stars...
Feminist Anthropology
...for Patterns of Culture (1934), which built upon and embellished Boas’s theory of cultural relativism. Benedict argues that the values, traditions, and beliefs of a given community are contingent upon...
The Post-Colonial Space Opera
...engagement with semiotics and linguistics bears favorable comparison to Samuel Delany’s classic novel, Babel-17. Both novels concern themselves with how language shapes ontological perspective, thought and culture, thus effecting how...
Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness
...Tigre (who blurbs the book), while including riot grrl and zine culture in her “depression archive” of cultural objects that bring her pleasure and community. The “stories of anxieties of...
Adventures in Candyland
...it being inspired, proposed out of nothing and, at its best, set up in opposition to its culture. In his new novel Satin Island, McCarthy creates fiction that is so...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...one verse and deal with intersections of network culture and urban communities of black and Latino youth, the traditional purview of hip-hop and other genres. One song, "Don't Feed the...
RUPTURES: Between the City and the Art World
...by thisistomorrow on the 12th December and archived on their website: thisistomorrow.info. For more information: [email protected] The full programme will be available on: www.rupturesinplaces.com To book FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruptures-between-the-city-and-the-art-world-tickets-19674357533...
Sunday Reading
...and Arendt's. Spirited Away, 10 years later. ReclaimUC UC/CSU: No criminal charges for the UC Davis pepper-spray cop, but the UC regents approved a settlement with the students who were...