The Clock Inside Us
...body and embed it within the culture of busyness. If clocks are agents that shape human actions, is it valid to assume that clocks are an “other”? By making sure...
No Money in Movies
...money, many of these artists are now faced with shrinking budgets and crowded release windows, which makes their work smaller in scale and less relevant to the culture at large....
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy
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...
First-Person Corporate
...novels Michaels regards as paradigmatically neoliberal in their themes and conceits. , he also detects in the culture itself. He writes in "What Matters," an August 2009 piece for The...
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
Soft Rebellion
...the West understands it, did not exist as a concept in Chinese culture until Han Han’s generation discovered it. And like their foreign counterparts, they find it an endlessly renewable...
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...
Stone-Age Nostalgia
...our ingredients and culture, hoping to rediscover our history and shape our future.” The Fäviken website also draws attention to its use of methods of food preparation (drying, salting, pickling,...
The Carceral State
...you know, there are also chapters of Critical Resistance in Los Angeles and Oakland that continue to push toward abolition in a culture where compromise is often the most we...
Frequently Asked Questions
...and offer a real editing process and a space for reflection and critique on issues of race, gender, labor, family, love, music, sickness, sexuality, faith, trash, money, everything. All this...
Vol. 9: Concept Album
...is not to revel in cynicism or absolve complacency through defeat but to acknowledge that music nurtures despair as often as it redeems it. It instills feelings of exclusion with...
Song Yang's Vigil
Join Red Canary Song Saturday, November 30 to imagine a world where all massage parlor workers are safe and respected
Then and Now and Never (Part 1)
...the dirt, all the shared silence to listen for murmurs, all the dogs who come from afar to smell life through meters of rock. But often, as happened today, when...
Sunday Reading
...About Discovering Science ReclaimUC: Breaking away: Top public universities push for "autonomy" from states Grad students make up 15% of the students in higher ed but account for 32% of...
Sunday Reading
...U.S. schools remain "highly segregated" The Potential Condescension of “Informed Consent” Palestinians Live What Israelis Fear ReclaimUC: Interview with Robert Meister on the UC system and public higher education "…feminist...