Beauty Blogosphere 10.5.12
...The timing is particularly iffy, as the products are made in Japan, which is currently sparring with China over an archipelago of islands; strong branding has prevented sagging sales of...
Sunday Reading
...is written in five scripts Tourists Flock to South Korea's 'German Village' A Taste of Algerian Music Out of the Hadhramaut - on the Arab diaspora in South-East Asia Of...
It Ought to Be Called Vice Cream
...good measure fragments of reptile brain were added, along with an eyeball or two. In Japan the 4th century emperor Nintoku was so taken with ice and its ability to...
Sunday Reading
...by an American company.” Lifecycles and Makerspaces in an “Electronics Graveyard”: Agbogbloshie Dorothea Lange’s Photographs of Japanese-American Interment “When people mourn the decline of Istanbul, they mourn the willful transformation...
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
Forget Me Not
...rush to commission a memorial for Sean Collier, the police officer who had been killed on the MIT campus in the multi-day chase following the Boston Marathon bombing. But myriad...
America.
...and these were labeled with the names of other places. In this form, in the form of “hilarious memes,” the story was reported in a comical way. Spain was a...
Whose Time Is It, Anyway?
The uneven temporalities that structure global capitalism require martyrdom from its least valued commuters
Psychic Refuge
..."translate" cultural difference; for example, in some cultures people may not identify individualized emotions but identify them as part of collective, family or social feelings, which are not compatible with...
black . . . gay
.... gay” formation. Dagmawi Woubshet writes, “Given the persistence of death in black life, black culture is imbued with an anticipatory sense of loss, recalibrating the calendar of mourning to...
Hanford Idyll
...(and to protect Hanford from outside interference) is now itself protected from development and agriculture, part of an edenic landscape imagined into the future. The Reach is presented as an...
Dixie Be Damned, But Damn Everything Too
An Interview with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley.
The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education
What happens to higher education when universities can no longer hike tuition?
Once Upon a Dream
...songs, the sardonic, aggressive edge to her impressionistic lyrics is sharper, and there’s something like anger in her relentless sexy posturing. The press emphasized that Jolie herself—megastar, businesswoman, Special Envoy...
Sunday Reading
...and look stupid: the ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr every conversation ever about sexual harassment watching male team sports while female Sia Fiegel's songs of the fat brown woman the healthy...
Army Realness from NATO to NBC
...are no stunt doubles. This is real.' Then he punctuates that promise: 'Real ammunition. Real explosives. Real danger.' Skier Picabo Street was quoted on the show's Twitter feed: 'I rode...