Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...some dark corner of my house, eating potato chips and refreshing my Tumblr feed in the hope that someone will have “liked” my Photoshopped picture of Kanye West in a...
Information inundation and social deskilling
...didn't blame themselves. When I get the sense I am scrambling to keep up with my Google Reader feed or all the links flowing through on Twitter, I get overwhelmed...
Northern Exposure
...proverb Codfish covered thousands of acres, enough to feed an army. "A piscatorial paradise!," as Caton himself remarked. But when he sat down to his first meal aboard that Norwegian...
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...audience knows when each joke ends.” The effect is a synthetic montage, with jumps between emotions and characters whose emotional whiplash resembles a social media feed (lesser comics just read...
Depthless Psychology
...or representing it, flat writing can resist what affect theorist Lauren Berlant calls the culture of “true feeling”: the insidious suggestion that “what we feel” corresponds directly to the “truth...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...Didn’t your studies in Marxism teach you about power dynamics and how people like you have literally owned people like us? Or what it is to be a settler versus...
Back to School
...rank-and-file teachers and police officers.” Many commenting on the protest noted the symbolic violence of teachers showing up to the first day of class in cop shirts when many of...
Leak, Memory
...other guards teach Slahi strategy. “Before the prison, I didn’t know the difference between a pawn and the rear end of a knight,” Slahi writes in his characteristically playful voice....
Queens
...though its deployment can teach us about the gender of power. She has avoided the fate of a princess, a title applied with more derision than awe, shaming women for...
Trigger for What
...the content of those books as universal. Initiation in this corpus is meant to teach critical thinking skills in a way that reading from contemporary media sources supposedly doesn't. Part...
Difference: An Audre Lorde Archive
...and Lesbians of Color are different because we are embattled by reason of our sexuality and our Color, and if there is any lesson we must teach our children, it...
The questioning of experience and the images of the Same
...absence of alterity was because alterity was itself a simulacrum. To teach this discovery to people with an IQ inferior to 80, ??????? imagined an aquatic installation (New York, 2011):...
Sunday Reading: July 23, 2023
...pundits like Jessie Singal are platformed, while trans politics is relegated to the Culture and Style sections. In response to public and in-house backlash, the Times at first appears to...
Sunday Reading
...hear you. We stand with you." On the unpaid and gendered "invisible care-work" that keeps academia running Open letter to DeRay McKesson on Teach For America and racial justice in...
Two Tears for Suboxone
...the Institution teach you how to use mysterious spiritual powers to destroy the root of your disease. It works like this: RECALL those moments scattered through your life when something...
Do Lipstick Feminists Actually Exist?
...as, yes, strident; we need nice-girl feminists who take pride in gently educating others about feminism; we need people whose response to teach me is don’t make me do your...