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...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.9.13
...big deal. Y not?: The Grand Narrative, as always, manages to elucidate aspects of American culture while examining contemporary Korean culture. This time: How the "Y-line" branding trend in South...
The Shanzhai Lyric
...China has long been known for its vibrant counterfeit culture. The “World’s Factory” produces iPhones, Uniqlo and Gucci, but also Pardo, Muimui and Diro. “Copycat” or shanzhai brands are at...
City of Brotherly Love
...consumer gay culture satisfied with glossy representations as a sign of progress. But I wondered what Looking would show me about the image of a gentrified San Francisco, framed for...
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...
"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...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...are small versions of the big things. We could look at interpersonal relations, rape culture, modern wars, colonialism, capitalism, globalization, white imperialism as a continuum rather than separate things. Think...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Philosophers of Babel
...funding to match: Eurothink at its academic best. Why else would the culture czars of Paris and Brussels who’ve brought you the yearly European Culture Capitals (Umeå, anyone?) and Quaero...
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...
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...