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...
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...
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
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...
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy
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....
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...
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...
Gut of the Quantifier
...practice eludes codification, it provides a living resource for the preservation of oral culture ... Senior executives, because of the authority they enjoy, have been able to preserve the orality...
The Devil You Know
...writers like Gaiman, Morrison, Moore, and Ellis. As comics culture has become more mainstream, the room for oppositional comics is restricted. Hellblazer now sells a third of what it did...
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...
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...
Song Yang's Vigil
Join Red Canary Song Saturday, November 30 to imagine a world where all massage parlor workers are safe and respected
Sunday Reading
...the office to report. ReclaimUC: The teaching class The disruption machine Torturing schools Starbucks, college access, and an unquestioning media The Starbucks tuition plan: "a business plan . . ....