Some Blues but Not the Kind That’s Blue
In music and literature, Jay-Z and Percival Everett meditate on maturity, black masculinity, and the confessional drive of the artist’s life
Walking in L.A.
...disrupt the music. These voices question Andersen’s film and his motives. “You wanna see Los Angeles?” one man asks. “Go inside this bus and look at the people. All kinds...
Baghdad, Utopia
...forcefully through images, stories, music, and the physical presence of those people who bear its marks. As I grew up, Baghdad was in the kitchen, in huge jars filled with...
Addicted to Failure
...plant vast fields of wheat, I can grow it more efficiently than if I diversify. Then I can feed more people. This logic ignores the complex, circular networks of causality...
Die progressive Paralyse
...reiteration or as a proof that the simulation is an interpretation]. S-75 confronted this aporia nonetheless, tried to enact a self-factorable simulation [definable by the total number of its nuances],...
Venerated Members
...ousted him from Rome and tried to cut out his tongue. The Pope was weak, but his gift allied him powerfully with the symbol of God’s earthly reign. How the...
Ranked Amateurs
...a paper his Freshman year, something that was done without his consent. In example after example, the organization publicly shames young men who have simply tried to provide for themselves...
Novel Evil
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
Bad Subjects
...in literature. An overlooked or shameful or abandoned part of the self that we have left to A-Z Dream Dictionary, music video flashback sequences, and Sigmund “royal road to the...
Sunday Reading
...to oblivion Who speaks for British Jews? The History, Myth, and Music of Syrian Druze singer Asmahan [podcast] An Indian Typography Cogs in the wheel: A day in the life...
Fitted
...amulet, and swear it is play, and that it is good fun. Our data exists to reproduce the world. Older kinds of confession promised to teach us how to love....
To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted
...She also taught courses at Woods Hole years before she was permitted to teach at Dartmouth. Before becoming a full professor, she served as President of the Phycological Society of...
White Magic
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
Sunday Reading
...culture is etched into products that define the player-construct’s existence." Videogames Without Players A review of Kitty Horrorshow's Dust City On Furniture Design in Videogames The Death and Life of...
Tender Potatoes
...Chantal Akerman’s films show how murderous violence always lurks in the mundanity of the domestic WHEN Chantal Akerman’s hyperrealist homage to ritualistic domesticity, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce,...