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...
The Withdrawal Method
...end up powering the standardized, homologated and commodified mechanisms that oppress you. But if Guy Debord and his merry band had anything to teach the world, it is always to...
Blue History
...incomplete. Knowing more means learning in ways inextricably linked with many humans and nonhumans, stretched in relations across and through the seas. Scientific expertise will not teach us everything when...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.7.13
...Fast and Furious has a thing or two to teach Star Trek—or at least J.J. Abrams—about presenting women onscreen. (Thanks to reader Jame-Ane for the link!) Shopping stigma: I...
Temple of Womb
...the state had created to imbibe propaganda now demanded more video, and the technologies deployed to teach them were repurposed to avoid the film censors’ decency regulations. In this climate,...
What Does a Woman Know?
...brought her to Egypt with his crew (1926-27), and she was really excited about it. He asked her frequently to come to Chicago to teach, but she continually turned him...
Death Is Not The End
...Ghost also entails dismissing the supernatural, which has important implications for his doctrine. One of the most significant roles the Church occupies in culture is the passing down of tradition....
The Ladies Vanish
...teach computers to do what engineers (mostly men) While the entire tech industry has huge gender disparities, the gender gap gets significantly more pronounced when we look specifically at the...
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...
A Detrimental Education
Zaina Alsous talks with Eli Meyerhoff about his book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World.
Glossary
...teach you. The eyewitness also revealed that Snake had been lied to, the injection containing merely a saline solution. When questioned further about this, the source said that he overheard...
Bad Housekeeping
...tinkers with PAT’s algorithms to teach her how to be his new mom. PAT studies videos of 1950s housewives and patterns her behavior after them—nagging, judging, shrewing, and other stereotypes...
Don't Be A Hero
...action without threatening structural change. These range from the education reform behemoth Teach for America to anti-prostitution initiatives, from government programs with multimillion dollar annual budgets like Americorps to the...
Damning With Faint Prize: Stanley Kenani’s “Love on Trial”
...more than teach my readers that their past--with all its imperfections--was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.” By contrast,...
Trouble at the Language Lab
...very wary of those who try to bend words to their will. There are in fact places in our world where people claim to be able to teach you this...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #140
...soldier, sailor. It is not a poem you memorize and recite to demonstrate cultural achievement, or as a means of producing a mental archive of Culture to call upon in...