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....
Wild Wild East
...as two other Worlds’ Fairs). In various popular culture depictions, he is at once lauded for his fierce commitment to defending the freedom of his people and reviled for his...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
Beauty Blogosphere 11.16.12
...of gay (male) culture with fashion (female-ish) culture means that it can be mighty easy for gay men to cross lines of objectification and harassment, mistakenly thinking that because they're...
Do the Robot
...through warm service, "hiring for attitude and training for skill." The authors of the HBR article note that the company "doesn’t lack for press about its positive organizational culture and...
A Very Brief History of Viking Victuals
...a source of pride. Publications on Old Norse culture started appearing as early as the 16th century. It all started in 1867, when excavators digging in a burial mound on...
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...
Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!
An excerpt
Fifty Shades of Yellow
...integration into the culture industry’s established circuits of value. The term “tinhat” originated in the stereotype of conspiracy theorists blocking out foreign, telepathic transmissions to their brains by wearing tinfoil...
Eric's Trip
...hot air and opacity, contributing to a general impoverishment of British political culture. His polemic is censorious yet witty, offsetting a surly, jaded disaffection — the man, one feels, has...
I Want to Believe
...countless forms in the popular imagination, permeating pop culture, politics, and the persecution anxieties of our booming psychiatric industry. Films like The Adjustment Bureau and television programs like Burn Notice...