Liquid authenticity
...Frédéric Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital helps clarify how two of the fantasies that feed neoliberal ideology — liquidity and authenticity — interrelate. The two concepts represent two...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
...Piggin' out. New law empowers Maine schools to feed uneaten school-lunch fare to farm hogs Fast-food fulfillment centers? Familiar chains have begun opening "ghost kitchens" dedicated exclusively to deliveries ordered...
Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...
Sunday Reading
...* Don’t Feed the Psychotic Narcissists * DeAndre McCullough (1977-2012) * The Mystery of Charles Dickens * Gore Vidal's Detective Novels * Justin Bieber initials on all my winter clothes...
Work Appropriate
...voice is one I look forward to seeing pop up in my blog feed. She's also written for The Closet Feminist, Lacquerheads of Oz, and The Peach. When I learned...
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
Violence Is Mine
...at its margins or, to use a more appropriate metaphor, in its feed. This fuels the slippage between everyday activity and symbolic violence that characters in digital works undergo —...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...my feed is full of feministy fashion types and I'm one myself) often hear the idea that fashion needs to be more realistic—and a fashion illustrator who makes her trade...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.31.13
...is. (via Caitlin) Trolled: "Don't feed the trolls" is an oft-heard admonition (one I usually follow myself) 'round the internets—particularly when it comes to trolls who bait women by arguing...
Propositions for Twenty Unmade Works of Art
...feed on them for several weeks Photograph the new maps 15 Make a work based on the hazards of your job Be specific and unsparing 16 On the night of...
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 4 & 5)
...more than solid feed for those bodies that look as hungry as these do. However if the quantity is ample the quality seems less certain. From this angle the teeth...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 2)
...to meet their requirements as well as those of taste. A banquet, a luncheon, a camping supper, a 'club feed,' are only incidentally nourishing. It is the social element and...
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?