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...
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...
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....
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
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...
There is no such thing as “The Court of Public Opinion” (but maybe there should be).
...culture is a thing, but wants us to respect the great firewall that protects people accused of crimes from a democratic mass that can’t be trusted; DeBoer, on the other...
Catcalls, Compliments, and Weariness
...bro” culture, a phenomenon taken to ludicrous heights on South Park with the advent of “PC Principal.” (And, more seriously, by James Deen.) PC bros—in South Park and in life—are...
Know Your Product
...product can we recognize ourselves as "genuinely" real, given the amount of attention and effort collectively directed at enchanting and foregrounding products within a consumer-capitalist culture. We are ideologically trained,...
Holy Land
...relevant, innovative, and progressive. Simultaneously, Israel’s neighbors (and the Palestinians it controls) are positioned as, at best, out of touch with liberal transnational culture and, at worst, undeveloped and reactionary....
Past Perfecting
...manipulations, began as a painter. His unique combination printing, which blended multiple negatives together, created a new way of altering the image and expanding photography’s creative potential. The culture of...
Speaking in Memes
...culture, a parallel to the biological gene in Richard Dawkins’s original coinage. Many have since adapted the term to describe how cultural products pass virally from person to person by...
Sunday Reading
...el reverendo (Pedro Pietri) en la memoria Actually Aisha: Covering Dalit Atrocities in a Savarna Newsroom In defense of fat sadness Inside the Culture of Abuse in Indian Theatre What...
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...
Festival Life
...also be seen as a symptom of the halcyon days of economic collapse. The shopping mall as site zombified consumer culture has been a trope in popular cinema as long...