Tim Burton's "Big Eyes"
...secret (an open secret, apparently) — "from her own daughter!" even. He capitalizes on a sexist culture to take credit for Margaret's ability, and then uses the specter of that...
The Job of Consent
The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex (October 2023) tests the limits of consent as a heuristic for "good sex," exposing the wide berth between pleasure and what is legible to the law.
Sunday Reading
...Lives in Poverty is a pretty serious indictment of the "amateur" athletic culture of the Olympics. I sort of get the feeling that the writer doesn't know it. "No political...
Sunday Reading
...the perils of reasoning from lexicon to culture Light as Image and Concept in the Qur’an and other Islamic Sources Why pray? Actually Aisha: Last Words of Rohith Vemula 'we...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.21.12
...sky-high heels and how they intersect with the city's car culture. ...And Everything In Between: Drug war: L'Oréal gets a slap on the wrist from the FDA for making...
The Postmodernity of Big Data
...Burnham, “in an advanced technological culture the most important artist best succeeds by liquidating his position as artist vis-a-vis society.” Thus the conceptualists turned to the transmission of information as...
Migratory Words
...speak the language, you understand the culture much better. At the same time, I’m an outsider, because it’s not where I’m from. It’s not my heritage. So I have to...
Race, Recognition, and Exotica
...“really” Indian. Being any race is tricky, being Indian particularly so. Are you Indian because of your bloodline? Your culture? Visibility? Self-identification? Tribal enrollment? Skin color? Community? I’m one-quarter ethnically...
The Jewish Messiah
...Culture, Miri Regev said that she would not fund any artist or institution that denigrates or delegitimizes the state of Israel. “If it is necessary to censor,” she announced upon...
Us and Them
...now falls to terrorists, not novelists, to “alter the inner life of the culture.” If the attacks of the last decade have prompted many to perceive a world divided between...
Doomsday Film Festival @ 92YTribeca 10/19-21
...Turning End Times into Good Times by Exploring Our Collective Fascination with The Apocalypse in Film, Art and Culture. It’s that time again: time to celebrate the universe’s evasion...
Judging Books by Their Covers
...They want to carry the book around with them. They want to treasure it for its value not only as knowledge and culture but also as a weight in the...
Sunday Reading
...deep book Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory, and Post-Secular Modernity. Taibbi on that Goldman executive I liked this movie. Had a half blog post about the way the movie has...
Batman Occupied
...the serial killers and terrorists, and they too are becoming stale in their repetition. Jameson, however, is wrong about politics being forbidden in mass culture. The Dark Knight Rises is...
The Party's Girls and Party Girls: Negotiating Beauty in the Soviet Union
...features particular to Eastern European women are especially valuable in the post-Soviet era in beauty and fashion. In a beauty culture that simultaneously celebrates the exotic but still defaults to...
Africa39: We Have New Names
...have lost, whether it is language and culture, or land and nation. And their writing is an attempt to recover a lost known object. But the Africa39 writers do not...