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...
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...
Radical Science, Feminism, and the Biology of Determinism
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
“My Working Will be the Work:” Maintenance Art and Technologies of Change
...that support a public culture of innovation. In an interview for Artforum , Ukeles talks about how two of the most famous Minimalist artists of the 20th century, Richard Serra...
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 Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
...Further Reading Hillel Schwart, The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (New York: Zone Books, 2014). Linda, Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and other essays (New York: Harper...
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,...
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...
You'll Never Walk Alone
...the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has ever been found.” In an ever-accelerating culture, the slow is the real. Such statements suggest a connection...
Yer Cheatin' Heart: Beauty and Infidelity
...was surprised by the findings of this study at first. On the surface, our culture tends to equate beauty with sex appeal more than it connects beauty and lovability. (The...
The White Women of Empire
...de-sexualized barbarians whose country we must infiltrate and dominate to protect our citizens from current danger and our culture from future threat. But it is clear that the helpless and/or...
Coming Out of the Coffin
...culture. The British public's fascination with details of Wilde's trials resulted in a broad condemnation of his character. Even in homosexual circles, Wilde was persona non grata for the rest...
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...
View From Nowhere
...sure. In contemporary culture, Big Data promises this relief. As the name suggests, Big Data is about size. Many proponents of Big Data claim that massive databases can reveal a...
Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton
...it's a huge part of their labor's marketability. And in a culture where most traits are deemed heritable, like property, great effort must be made to stop the communicability of...