Weed
...far behind, Andrew Beccone of the Reanimation Library digs into the archive for the hippies, scientists, and peddlers of moral panic of 20th century weed culture. In the reviews section,...
TNI Rex (4)
...of producing a massive archive of bizarre scenes and harrowing close calls from Russian roadways. An intricate web culture has sprung up on Russian forums dedicated to uploading sharing these...
Cookie Cutters
...temporary employment, rented houses, longer work lives, failed states, and consumer culture. Perhaps consent is no longer available for purchase; maybe we can now only— from time to time—subscribe....
Mirror Binge
...it here.) And one of the reasons I don't write about it here is because I'm firm in my belief that we as a culture have overconnected eating disorders to...
Adding Up: Phyllis Rosser and the Gender Politics of Standardized Math Tests
...standardized testing and American culture and the Social Media Editor for Lady Science. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of women and gender in science,...
The World and What it Isn't: Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names."
...similarity of human culture; though he did draw parallels between African and English authoritarian patriarchs, he was primarily interested in the way Okonkwo’s Africa had to be erased and forgotten...
The Art of Memoir: Outside is Trouble
...world another hurdle obstructing the course of romance, and when desires are left to be sated on the residuals of the disappeared object — or when language, culture, class, and...
White Bodies, Black Faces
...disaster for American politics and culture. But there are all these other people who are left with really profound questions about where we’re going as a country, about solidarity. Some...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...opportunity to thrive through rigorous and ceaseless testing. I imagine that some view the Occupy unrest in this light; our culture's well-groomed and highly educated elite could be looking out...
Memory and Preservation
...was already frayed and past any possible human repair. In these futures, we lose past and present. The inhabitants of “Imaginum” therefore take steps to preserve and protect culture,...
The Devil You Know
...writers like Gaiman, Morrison, Moore, and Ellis. As comics culture has become more mainstream, the room for oppositional comics is restricted. Hellblazer now sells a third of what it did...
California
...of the cozy 4,000-square- foot homes along the Orange County coastline, detecting in their stucco right angles and overstuffed pillows the glimmerings of a queer suburban culture. Holding down the...
"Art"
...alleged democratization effect afforded by networked technologies is often posited as the most significant recent development in culture and society, posing new questions—or, let’s face it, the same old questions—as...
Arguing the Web (3): Post-Text
...culture of self-centered, distracted readers who forgot the MLA guidelines for correct citation. The real interest lies in criticism about the growing culture of subjectivity that puts feelings before facts,...
War Comes Home for Dinner
...of a culture of its own, for now it still takes us out of the ones we belong to. Sharing recipes, cooking meals with family, meeting friends at a favorite...
The Year of Magical Thinking
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC