The Other Foot
...Liza of Style Blueprint told me, “To be authentic in what you’re writing about, it means that you fully support it. You have tried that face cream. And you didn’t...
Moral belief as aesthetic stance
...would say yes; Camille Paglia would laugh derisively, then say no. Willis' phrase "the values of civilization" is frustratingly vague--is this civilization in the sense of culture (the arts), or...
Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live: Gabriel García Márquez's Memory
...of Colombian folk culture. Second, there is the “Faulknerian revolution” story that people like Pascale Casanova put forward, where William Faulkner modeled a particular way of being a writer in...
We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class
...be translated as “deepening”: deepening one’s social isolation by means of the further demands produced by another child. But we should add that the more capital tried to increase the...
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...
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...
The voice is Ricky’s voice
...to try on some black and pink lingerie, the photog briefed me. it’s for richardson, i want you to be like music, intelligible and inexplicable at the same time. totally...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...