Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
Vol. 19 Editors' Note: "Art"
...development in culture and society, posing new questions—or, let’s face it, the same old questions—as to where the work resides and how we should look at it. Parker Ito’s America...
Sunday Reading
...migrant Cities of jasmine, roses of beloveds: scent, identity, and culture in the Middle East The Socioeconomics Of Bad Weather In Jordan Seeds of Sudanese Identity: Unsettling the Logic of...
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...
Turn Down for What?
...whether or not Negarestani draws this term from Trotskyist turned Neoconservative culture warrior David Horowitz, who used “kitsch Marxism” first in his 1999 book Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes...
Six years (and counting) of circlusion
...results, “On Circlusion,” at Mask Magazine in the summer of 2016. Ever since, especially in the semi-offline and subterranean passageways of global queer culture, the text has enjoyed cult classic...
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...
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...
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...
No Accidents, Comrade
...increasingly crowd out the chance new discoveries will be made. Narratives using chance in American culture — the rags-to-riches story, or immigrant emigration story lines — are so prominent, they...
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...
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...express our uniqueness through the material culture we assembled for ourselves. Without consumer goods, our true self would rest dormant within us, untouched by the desire that could vivify it....
Sunday Reading
...associated with their gang moniker? It will be located within their cellular phones." Trayvon Martin, a victim in the NRA's culture war A Miracle in Colonel Sanders' Colon Jazz and...