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...
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...
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...
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...
Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You
...Mohaiemen ([email protected]) explores borders, wars, and belonging through essays and film. His essays include “Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic roots of hip-hop” (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture,...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The sanctuary campus movement and local points of resistance A call for sanctuary Beyond sanctuary cities/campuses: stop deportations by any means A map of sanctuary campuses "It is...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: Students at UC Berkeley turn the tables on a racist professor 96 hours of action concludes with successful campus shut down Students seeking to redesignate restrooms as...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: UC's new methodology for determining the cost of education is absurd Can UC answer these 5 big questions about its spending? No confidence in the University of...
Sunday Reading
...Alexandria villa facing demolition The difficulties faced by Pashtun singers ReclaimUC: "[T]he whiter the school, the more diversity depicted in the brochures" Dude, where's the race in your class analysis...
Sunday Reading
...Peer Review in the Age of Adjunctification “The soldiers had just left and my grandmother’s house looked battered and bruised.” Seamus Heaney’s Last Poem ReclaimUC: After the freeze: UC...
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
This Week in Art Crime
...reach the sign. Police are thought to have identified Urakawa from the video. Abraham earlier told his Facebook followers he was in Japan over the New Year’s holidays. Osaka police...
Sunday Reading
...in Gujarat schools Violence outside Paris synagogue falsely attributed to anti-Semitism How Opposite Energy Policies Turned The Fukushima Disaster Into A Loss For Japan And A Win For Germany This...
The Dating Game: Compliments, Part III
...out: Compliments between romantic partners frequently differ from compliments given to friends. The role and intent of compliments are always contextual, and nothing provides a broader context than culture. Intimate...