Dating in the Expanded Field
...the very thing it is supposed to capture. Boomer parents bewail the hookup culture that they say has replaced dating, while their adult children stare into the abyss of Craigslist...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Line Cooked
...hurt myself had always been very encouraging and supportive of my growth as a cook. The kitchen culture there was somewhat unconventional, even slightly democratic. And the whole restaurant staff...
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...
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...
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...
"It Continues Not To End": Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
...of Kenyan and African literature more broadly. Second, the historical. This text is very much of a particular moment in Kenyan literary culture, what I would characterize as the disillusionment...
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...
Black Sun Rising
...with the racialist think tank American Renaissance, de Benoist says, “Europe, race, culture, and identity all have roles ... I am very interested in the future and destiny of my...