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....
Get real
...belonging, not the acts of an egregiously desperate victim of image culture. The moral tenor of the novel is that America has been swept over by superficiality, by artificiality, by...
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...the gap between what a buyer is promised with a beauty product and what she actually receives; the gap our culture has created between being the smart girl and the...
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,...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
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...
The Madman's Interpreters
...culture. But maybe their particular power, a power that can be almost scary, comes from their inability or refusal to find or accept a niche, to fit in. Certainly artists...
Nerd Sex Symbol Redux
...in order to be seen as “one of us” by nerd culture at large. It’s not just McKellar’s math skills; it’s her specific brand of appeal that puts her in...
Shame: A Durkheimian Take
...read, otherwise I'm just another selfish Tory). Instead, he just appears utterly stuck with himself. In these respects, Brandon's character is entirely at odds with the therapy culture of New...
Sunday Reading
...migrant Cities of jasmine, roses of beloveds: scent, identity, and culture in the Middle East The Socioeconomics Of Bad Weather In Jordan Seeds of Sudanese Identity: Unsettling the Logic of...
Facebook division of labor and the rewired society
...everything is always beta. "Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic" -- of course it is, just like neoliberalism, or capitalism itself. Markets always let the deserving "win." I'm...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.23.12
...inherent licentiousness, it only makes sense for modesty bloggers to apply "modesty" judiciously—but the contradiction is undeniable. Our culture's definition of "modesty" is tricky indeed (note how it's never applied...
Wordly Treasures
...advanced capitalist societies and hegemonic consumer culture. The loss of beauty and knowledge from the world appears as a compelling argument for language preservation and revitalization, and it is inspiring...
Kenya's Security Act: Everyday Life
...plan how to raise more funding to generate more documents. Radical Culture Spaces for radical culture will have to be fostered—spaces where the imagination can travel beyond what the state...