Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
Sunday Reading: August 6, 2023
...of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down....
Class Consciousness for American Doctors
Professionalism is the ideological terrain on which medicine’s culture interacts with its class politics
Bloodless Coop
...of the erotic, naturalness, stereotypical femininity, and the earth, and also serves, according to the classic structuralist argument, as an oppositional coding that reinforces normative categories of culture, masculinity, and...
Top or Bottom: How do we desire?
What do queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique?
Folk Etymologies
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
Weight Gains
...culture of laziness and excess à la Wall-E’s floating invalids: claims centered on specifically U.S.-American attitudes to work or disposable income level must be chucked. So what has caused this...
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
...is an art form that tells us as much about Balinese culture as ethnographic chestnuts like kinship structures or gift giving. The cockfight “is, for the Balinese, a kind of...
Real Inauthentic Like
...on the idea of an “ailing literary culture,” lamenting that each and every novel published now clamors to be heard like church bells rung by wild sugar high children: “All...
Vol. 17 Editors' Note: Rules of the Game
...are always encouraged, as long as they’re not deployed against the logic of the game. This reaches an apotheosis in contemporary work culture: Be creative! We’ve got a pool table...
The New Somali Studies
...arrived in Zeila, his first stop before traveling through the rest of Somaliland and the broader Horn of Africa. He was keenly interested in the culture, beliefs, and practices of...
Lessons of Engagement
...of extinction. Schooled in French and its imperial culture, Adnan was drawn at a young age to Lebanon’s local language and poetry, which she was discouraged from learning. (She said...
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
...Jain’s pronouncement that, ‘‘all of us in American risk culture live to some degree in prognosis.” Prognosis, a trajectory which maps the likely outcome of pathogenic danger, structures national crises...
Games
...reaches an apotheosis in contemporary work culture: Be creative! We’ve got a pool table and a beer fridge and a big open office without cubicles and no benefits and an...
The Enduring Legacy of Basquiat’s Hair
...European art gallery. They’re both the brash play of traditionally irreconcilable worlds, increasingly common in modern culture, thanks to those who pushed barriers in the past. Abdul Abasi of Nepenthes...
Faked in China
...where unscrupulous business practices sully the intellectual property of hardworking Euro-American brand owners, or attempt to offer a “cultural” explanation—that is, a racist one, holding Chinese culture as incapable of...