Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
"Shadow Run"
...Only empire makes this possible. Image from the 2015 USO calendar....
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
...Head novel, let’s try the one that won’t confuse people. DONE. I’m giving Nicholls some good-natured sass, here (sorry dude), because, as someone who studies, reads, and teaches contemporary African...
Canceled Message (Part Two)
...one in which the internet becomes a "stream," an image that conjures more of a gently babbling brook than the digital culture shock I just described. The ubiquity of the...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
Bookin' It
...Schuster in 2015. Writing a book has been a longtime goal of mine, and writing this book—a comprehensive "where are we now?" survey of women (and men!) and beauty culture...
The New Inquiry Vol. 52: New Masses
...real -- “to do the emotional work necessary for the Western consumer to be moved, and to have that consumer’s beliefs stroked rather than complicated.” For now, global wage disparities...
Sunday Reading
...near the Nepal earthquake epicenter West Virginia's continuing water crisis [radio 52:36] Institutions need to protect scholars when they publicly engage. Against shoddy popular history Bint Battuta: The Ten Commandments...
Classics
...bourgeois society is war. Those who want to approach the knowledge held in the academy must also internalize its mechanisms. Some go on to help it reproduce itself, as teachers....
Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
The Untrustworthy Reader
...thirty-four were killed ... and, as the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders ... put it, of those thirty-four dead blacks ‘several ... were killed by mistake.’ ” There is...
Warning
...begun laying siege to a second, the governor of Minnesota held a press conference in which he claimed that white supremacists were coming from out of state to instigate violent...
Eugenics: Policing Everything
...American civic authority. State fairs and sesquicentennial exhibitions performed American federalism and nationalism, and eugenic goals—fundamentally aimed to curtail participation in American democracy—were embedded in these communal celebrations. Not surprisingly,...
Service-Animal Liberation
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
Tinderization of Feeling
...Tinderized form of intimacy. Swipe right, match, date, fuck, unmatch, rematch, repeat. As any exposure to Tinder teaches, nothing matters unless you want it to matter. This a line to...
Death Immortalized
...formed by a culture industry and critical apparatus that emphasized the closeness of science fiction and utopia, Rieder’s paradigm-shifting book came as a bit of an embarrassing shock. I suppose...