The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
Called to Account
...La Berge, who are making crucial interventions about how social relations and culture are shaped by financialization. There’s a lot of work out there about neoliberal discipline and how discourses...
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...
Gay Life Against Marriage
...Sullivans of the gay community has been successful. They profit from having denigrated the massively innovative public sex culture, which was the social basis of gay politics, as unthinking promiscuity...
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Beside the Point: Appearance Anxiety in Eating Disorders
...of TV in Fiji was probably a pretty big fucking deal and that maybe Baywatch was less of a culprit than the shifting notions of culture, family, leisure, and communication....
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,...
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy
No Money in Movies
...money, many of these artists are now faced with shrinking budgets and crowded release windows, which makes their work smaller in scale and less relevant to the culture at large....
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...
Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age
...quickly became famous for sharing their most intimate secrets, for getting metaphorically naked in public. Confessional literature is by no means new. In The Culture of Narcissism, for instance, Christopher...
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...
A History of Like
...or "I agree," or "This is awesome"? At first it seems like one of those accidents of popular culture, where an arbitrary boardroom decision eventually dictates our everyday language. In...
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...
How It Feels to Be Free
Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske discuss Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet and translator after the devastation of Hurricane Maria.