My Soul to Keep
...is the utopian dream of a future predicated on abundance and ease. Erected in its stead is a nightmare vision of ruthless, zero-sum competition. Culture distinguishes itself from nature only...
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...
The Semiautobiographers
...culture. Against these obedient arcs, a little narrative graffiti is more than welcome. New Narrative and its daughters refuse the old dictate that women be demure and follow the rules,...
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...
Reading Like a Loser
...is to see how politics can be “a species-changing practice.” What’s more, to extend the limits of society is also to stretch those of culture. For Bull, the cultural counterpart...
The Unfuckables
...possible for the hissing girls to cloak it in something political. Something about ‘beauty standards,’ maybe. Or ‘raunch culture.’ ” Fey and company responded to this vein of "girl-on-girl crime"...
Self-Help
...about the growing “digital detox” movement, which is more about policing our desire for autonomy than protecting ourselves from the evils of digital culture. Jesse Barron’s “Instructions For Young Manhood”...
Who Are You and What Do You Really Know?
Gaslighting and Dolezalean logic
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Vol. 22 Editors' Note: Self-Help
...evils of digital culture. Jesse Barron’s “Instructions For Young Manhood” gives some helpful advice to young dudes on how to behave in the gym, tracing the links between the cult...
The Odor of Things
...for intellectual discipline. So it was a surprise when he accepted the 2003 Novelist of the Year award from a council funded by the Ministry of Culture after declining many...