So Many Secrets
A roundtable on cultural organizing in New York City
The Failure of Bystander Intervention
...be fulfilled, or at least not by one solitary hero. There is an entire culture of violence upholding sexual assault as normal, as just sex. Outside of college guidelines, sexual...
The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice
A conversation with the authors of Octavia's Brood.
I Woke Up Like This
...overcoming spiritual hurdles and sharpening the mind, so you can stay in complete control at all times. The break that the health rave makes with hardcore nightlife culture pivots around...
On Heteropessimism
Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.
Promotional culture on Facebook
...as opposed to a particularly effective garment. But Facebook also functions as a promotional commodity (if not an entire promotional culture in its own right), only its brand equity is...
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
...endearment. The Paris Opera Ballet commissioned a documentary about Doisneau from Bel, a "low-rank" dancer a week away from retiring after a 20-year career. The evening of her last performance...
Speak/Now
...in feminist blogging that Butler identified in academic feminism of the 80s. One possible site of this anxiety is the lyrics of Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift’s music, her persona, but...
Infinite Jestice
...by the government's own legal and political advocates have become so commonplace that their 'efficacy' depends merely on streamlining them. If the baseball-card calculus of kill/capture lists on 'Terror Tuesdays'...
Dragged Down by the Stone
...how drugs, celebrity, and the music business conspired to make Pink Floyd's original leader, Syd Barrett, into a nonmusical, nonfunctioning mentally ill recluse, Animals would broaden its contempt to include...
No Kings of New York
...equally equipped to produce genre-expanding music and solve paranormal crime. To my knowledge they only do one of the two on a regular basis. How do you manage the demands...
Consultancy Rock
...songs — that tracks from, say, Rush’s 1993 grunge disc Counterparts are somehow over the heads of ordinary music fans rather than simply being inaccessibly boring. But maybe the Rush...
It Gets Worse
...kind of criticism forecloses the chance to look at Odd Future’s music as fiction, to see it as an attempt at truth, as artists’ creation rather than the simple abstraction...
Silence Is a Woman
...the many other ethnic communities in the Kenyan story as told by Gikuyu men. Here, I also want to insist on the strong tradition within Gikuyu women's culture of resisting...
Powers of the Bottom
...Lately I keep returning to Debordian idioms of the spectacle, “whose function it is to bury history in culture,” making me cautious about working right now unless it arises naturally...
An American Education:
Notes from UATX
Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin, the campus of the "anti woke" commentariat. Student names have been anonymized.