Sickness Unto Death
...but American society at large. Ours is a culture that pushes to see the eldest members of our families safe and secure above all else. We don’t see that the...
Not Your Friend: Dissensus and the Police
...nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means...
Tracing Ana
...apartment window under what can only be referred to as suspicious circumstances. Her husband, heralded artist Carl Andre, was tried and ultimately acquitted of murder, earning him a new sobriquet:...
Desecration Hardware (Prelude: The Montpellier Armoire)
...the doors themselves, the silent violence of the chipping, the queer burnishing, almost as if trying to gain a grip on what could not be... We knew. Someone had tried...
Fucking Like a Housewife
From On Becoming Undone
Media and Consumer Desire
...satisfy demand. As retailers tried to compete on the level of the brand, appeals were made to consumers on the level of how they feel about buying something, urging them...
Boardwalk YOLO and ASMR videos
...then while I am at it, I resent their music and their fashion and their Facebook pages and everything else.) People now enjoy an experiential privacy that's anchored to their...
In Motion
An interview with director, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about her film What is Democracy?
Kjerstin Gruys, Ph.D. sociology student, Bay Area
...how our culture kind of shaped my experience. Having an eating disorder, you’re always aware of your own body image, but it’s not until you’re recovering that you’re really forced...
Fruits and Vegetables
...that it is hard to imagine a world worth living in without them. Humor, music, poetry, recycling, and failed recreational drug use all owe quite a good deal to the...
An Interview with Michel Gondry
...arguments for generative grammar and I like that he tried to find the heart of the mechanism, going around recording the ways people speak in primitive cultures and finding not...
Ramadan Diaries: Looking Backward, Looking Inward
...who was once involved in arranging a piece of mine to music. In the sturdy pews my body fell into a state of such severe pain that I doubled over....
Beauty Blogosphere 6.29.12
...I suppose bodybuilding is more of a defined activity and subculture than staying thin, a "hobby" no subgroup of women seems to comfortably escape.) Girl germs: Sales of men's personal...
Sunday Reading
...Flesh The Slow Death of Turkish Higher Education Gecekondu chic? Informal settlements and urban poverty as cultural commodity What Was Left Behind: Music of the Ottoman Empire Repetition and Death...
The History of Dialogue (5): Snobs on Snobbery
...music (or organic food or fine wine or fashionable clothing) I would say, secretly complimenting myself for my magnanimity. Reading Finnegan’s Wake has reminded me of an essential difference between...
Steal This Article
...the country, there are 28 empty homes waiting for them right now. Laws and culture deny them a roof over their head, not a dearth of roofs. It is our...