Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
...the overlap between online and offline violence is emblematic of the same perils of patriarchal power that give rise to rape culture in the “ real world .” The Internet...
Five Questions with CAConrad
...music. I place a piece of fruit on the floor with my laptop to play one track from Victoire’s CATHEDRAL CITY CD. I cover the fruit and laptop with a...
Sunday Reading
...that culture of origin is “the single most important variable” in determining if a plane crashes’ “languages differ not so much in what they can express as what they must...
Yes We Keynes!
...perhaps forgive Quiggin this last sin, though, since, quite frankly, what you and I think matters considerably less than what economists teach and practice. As Keynes himself wrote in the...
Orhan Pamuk and The National on Sadness
...safe, somehow removed. The addictive quality of the National’s music is in its flippant, wallowing, self-conscious sadness. Even their songs about love and comfort and pleasant things take place in...
The Crimson Ghost
...of the most instantly recognizable pop culture insignias; it’s been featured on everything from knock-off Ugg Boots and thong underwear to diaper bags. In fact, it is a cultural cliché....
A Man Alone
...populist who rendered the ordinary person's feelings and aspirations in easily digested metaphors while the culture snobs sneered. But if you listen to a lot of his music or read...
The Collection and the Cloud
...yet the archival functionality of platforms feels like an empty promise. In the culture of surveillance, evidence collection is never-ending, a shadow to every activity. These daily interactions with (and...
Get Off
...always been in my experience closer to the language used to describe music: Things are harsh, ethereal, fuzzy, stark, amplified, severe, ringing. Out of context, if you missed the first...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 6 & 7 & 8)
...is a musical, or at least there is music playing. There are people dancing. They don't sing so maybe that means it is not a musical. That moon is cut...
Teju Cole's Afrolicious Playlist
...of African music this past week. We're honored to share one of these in the A/V section here. All text comes from Cole's tweets. To improve your Friday immeasurably, here's...
The Weather
...her children as property, she succeeds in killing her daughter Mary. After which she is recaptured, held, tried, and put on the Henry Lewis, that ship that will return her...
A Sensor, Darkly
Bryant, who was named the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, is an air force veteran. His memoir originally appeared in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. The essay collection was edited by Lisa Parks and
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Fake Painting
...like successful forgers are closer to these fantastic stereotypes than other kinds of art criminals. That’s absolutely right, and I teach forgery differently than other categories of art crime. Forgergery...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide