Beauty Blogosphere 6.14.13
...am not the culture of Lululemon. Everyone is the culture of Lululemon." (Ayn Rand would be so disappointed!) Who will succeed her is anyone's guess; Forbes predicts Lululemon will make...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Turtles from the Shells
...journey” may have been an appropriate structure for George Lucas’s Star Wars or Steve Case’s AOL business plan, but it was no longer an appropriate map for a culture that...
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...
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...
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....
Wordly Treasures
...advanced capitalist societies and hegemonic consumer culture. The loss of beauty and knowledge from the world appears as a compelling argument for language preservation and revitalization, and it is inspiring...