Fun With Agamben!
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn
MPREG versus Homonormcore
...not always necessarily subversive, however, and with an increasing abundance of queer representation in popular culture, fan works can also function as a normative conservative force. Berit Åstrom, who has...
Enigma Deviations
...intelligence services tried to de-risk themselves by expelling “perverts” in Turing’s time. A Foucauldian story could be told about the transition from a mode of governance that compelled self-transparent subjects...
Blue Skies
...leader for storing and managing video evidence in the cloud through its business division Axon. Taser’s software and storage brand, Evidence.com, promises to collect and share digital evidence. But keeping...
Closing the Loop
...culture media platforms, Feminism with a capital F began largely to overtake the other causes that the selfie politic had previously championed. What remains, in 2016, is a political and...
The Ellipsis That Told the Tale
Until 1969, there were several attacks on the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno during the student riots in Germany. This story takes place 30 years later, when the roots and conflicts that fueled the incidents are still being felt in a daughter who is reassembling fact and fiction dating back to 250 AD in an attempt
Soundtracks for Virtual War
...I started making electronic music, my goal as a child was to be a classical composer, so the idea of using something that exists seems like cheating. Now I’ve gotten...
EMP Pop Conference @ NYU 4/18-19
...The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and the Department of Performance studies at NYU's Tisch School of Arts are proud producers of the 2013 EMP Pop Music...
Why Do Stars Love the Stars?
...Celebrities and their astrologists practice an ancient psychological form of art. A few weeks ago I was invited to do astrology readings backstage at the American Music Awards in...
Drones are Paranoid Androids
...to the idle or lazy male honeybee, but it is never stupid. This culture doesn't typically associate lazy or drunk workers with intelligence, if the singular place of Homer Simpson...
"Flowers in the Attic" Is the Best Book Ever* And Here Is Why
...survivors of coercive incest convince themselves that their abuse is quasi-consensual, as a survival tactic.) I agree, at least in the sense that popular culture is a part of rape...
Woman With a Weapon-Camera
On the work of Sarah Maldoror
Let's Tell This Story
...culture. Like many Africans of my generation, Marechera's characters paid homage to African literature by taking it for granted as something that didn't need to be rationalized or justified; more...
Swarovski Kristallnacht
...however small, to align yourself with a certain ideology, culture, community. There is no opting out of getting dressed. But in our post–“Punk: Chaos to Couture” reality, it appears as...
The Enduring Popularity of the Suntan
...of material luxury, a tan represents that we have the luxury to be connected to both nature and culture simultaneously. Tourism boards use tanning in their materials: “The bourgeois on...
Assemblage Required
...that forced the germ of the present moment into precipitous bloom. “The poor little culture grew up too fast,” she writes. All of a sudden, it had outgrown its old...