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...
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...
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...
"Art"
...alleged democratization effect afforded by networked technologies is often posited as the most significant recent development in culture and society, posing new questions—or, let’s face it, the same old questions—as...
The Roads Not Taken
...as in his courtship of Brando, Kerouac strongly conceived of literature as a part of the American culture industry – the machinery of what he called the Beat Generation. Brando...
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,...
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...
Sorry Not Sorry
...came to adjudicate his crimes. Who will question Oprah, the billionaire who broadcasts poor people’s slobbering and screaming for her handouts, who christens the literature of our narcissistic culture of...
Editors' Note, Vol. 34: California
...culture. Holding down the fort are drag culture’s estranged sellout stepchildren: The Real Housewives. The suburban realness of reality television reveals even hetero designs like master-planned subdivisions as forms 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...
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...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...opportunity to thrive through rigorous and ceaseless testing. I imagine that some view the Occupy unrest in this light; our culture's well-groomed and highly educated elite could be looking out...
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...