Ambient awareness
...A reposting of one of my Buzzfeed Community posts for archival purposes When Twitter first started, its boosters tried to sell it as supplying “ambient awareness” and fostering...
Cooperative Kitchens of Yesteryear
...rooms on the first floor into a music room, another into a library. The largest room they made into a dining room that could accommodate 60 people. “It is the...
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...
The Stoop and the Street
...for this conversation,” Lacy said. She paused. “I think that’d be Washington.” *** An hour and a half after we began talking on the stoop, the sound of music seeping...
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...
Google's Macchia
...current age of frenzied information collection, massive computation, and feral capitalism. Google tried to do everything. It proved itself the deepest and fastest of the search engines. It stomped 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....
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
...days to spare, we could dot the planet with a series of mile-long conga lines. I'd be the first to say, Let's fill every available music studio with every aging...
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...
In Motion
An interview with director, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about her film What is Democracy?
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...
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...
Placebos and Noisy Bodies
...to self-medicating my aches and pains—the sprains, depressions, anxieties, flus—with mix-and-matched doses of alcohol, friendship, romance, sex, food, coffee, writing, sleep, the Internet, exercise, pop music, critical theory, literature, art,...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
...days to spare, we could dot the planet with a series of mile-long conga lines. I'd be the first to say, Let's fill every available music studio with every aging...
God’s Dice
...of violence? He tried out his theory on hundreds of the most elusive variables: the type of music listened to, favorite sexual fetish, being an early morning or night person....