Some Kind of Exile
...city, and got lost in the subway system. It was nice, a good introduction to American culture. So the next day, I was to take a bus from Port Authority...
After Infinitude
...instead targeting an audience that is seeking an illusion of intellectual rigor, but in our shock-gratification culture, wants it delivered in a compressed, dramatically scored, high-octane finale. It’s not a...
'Tis the Season: The Beheld Gift Guide
...keeps on giving. (I also sort of want to do my part to reclaim the flask for women; the "Flask Gift Set for Women" at eflask.com isn't quite cutting it.)...
Seeing Stars
...Courtesy artificialgallery.co.uk MAY1ZZZ, lilo Lindsay Lohan fanpop.com Taranenko, Rihanna, 2011 DeviantArt.com Brothers De La Motte, Paris Hilton’s selfie, Undated imsoqueer, Mary-Kate, 2011 DeviantArt.com Cameron Gray, Oops...I did it again, 2007...
Sunday Reading
...globalization such that they’ve begun to ignore geography" hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com; tweetpairing.tumblr.com; wtfevolution.tumblr.com; actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com T.F. Charlton: "So, what was Stonewall?" - NPR's erasure of trans women from the Stonewall narrative. Interrogating the...
Narrative of Fragments
...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...
Massively Open Online Police State
...the obvious ways to make production more efficient—fewer musicians playing faster—wouldn’t work as well for the production of music as for the production of cars. An organization with cost disease...
When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician. His latest collection, titled simply […], was written in the months following Israel's escalation of genocide in Gaza—which killed many of Joudah's family members.
Deeper Than Rap: Black Bar Mitzvahs and the New Rick Ross
...Jewish Christmas, a parallel tradition for those left out of the main culture.” One also wonders whether if who’s Jewish/whose bar mitzvah question might be a red herring obscuring a...
Black Life, Annotated
...black resistance. When Goffman starts her PhD program at Princeton she confesses to experiencing culture shock. She has been living in another world and so she no longer gets the...
Champagne Wishes and Crypto Dreams
Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?
Sunday Reading: October 29, 2023
...art market runs on being a tax incentivized wealth management program, the efforts by those who benefit from that program to assert their political views on culture workers is still...
Dating Games
...what? Has either of them actually tried online dating? Ludlow argues that the formulaic rom-coms of the 1950s had it right: Domestic bliss comes from “unlikely pairings.” (Let’s just forget...
The Right to Remain Silent
...on the basis of a very real ideological divide. Here, too, is another link to how prison pipelines target minorities. Those ignorant of Deaf culture see deafness as an inherently...
Made for China
...years ago, bicycles and buses dominated Beijing, but now the city streets are an impasse of cars. For a culture so obsessed with America, it gives them a thrill to...
Gender Fuck
...people use porn as sex education, but because porn is also a reflection of our culture's sexual politics. Unfortunately, working in the adult industry still carries a heavy stigma and...