Games of Truth
...art practice, another tried and true mode of trolling. In the February 29, 1984, lecture, Foucault connects performance to "the consensus of culture" and parrhesia to art: The consensus of...
Games of Truth
...of trolling. In the February 29, 1984, lecture, Foucault connects performance to “the consensus of culture” and parrhesia to art: The consensus of culture has to be opposed by the...
Paths to Gory
...of American culture than a critique of it. But then again, convulsive spew may be an apt approach to capturing the American spirit. The movie opens with a sexual assault:...
Yasssss, Kween!
...documentary Paris Is Burning, “is fundamental.” Jarvis Derrell, the voice behind the wildly popular Instagram account @SheHasHadIt, first watched the influential 1990 film on New York City drag culture on...
A Cute Idea
...Item Falls Ryan Trecartin's films defamiliarize contemporary culture without casting explicit judgment “Earthlings now live in a kindergarten grotesque.” –Rem Koolhaas, “Junkspace” From a windowless warehouse—part-TV studio, part-bunker—they...
Fame Shame
...Dunham wrestles with his desire for fame is familiar to me: craving and pursuing recognition and accolades from the dominant culture while acknowledging and distancing oneself from all things evil...
Meat Market
...career of bringing far-flung food culture onto our most closely held screens. He has built his brand by articulating the anti–Olive Garden for viewers anxious about the authenticity of their...
Curb Your Moralia
...invested in the plot device of character development, Curb understands that endurance in the culture industry is achieved through seriality. In Curb's persistent caricature of Larry David, the incredibly rich...
Dissecting the Frog
...community. These community standards may then be placed in the context of the larger culture, thus revealing as much about the latter as it does about the former. Gabriella Coleman’s...
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
...ideal condition – that of the tabula rasa. Around the same time and within its own borders, America perfected a culture of tabula rasa in mass production – automobile transportation,...
Manufactured Response
...I had never once received e-mails from: “Concerns about Japan.” “Checking in.” “Japan chaos.” “Is your family okay?” Nothing from my parents. Chaos? I sat down again and did a...
Stage Boundary Songs
...[l]Stage Boundary Songs, a mix by DJ Rupture, Filastine, & Nova Ruth, 54 min[/l] We live, sleep, dream, and die atop mass graves. Terror and lies prevent us from...
Sunday Reading
...them to be able to kill. From the reclaimuc archives: The police state in Europe vs. the police state in the US. White House petition calling for gun control legislation...
Sunday Reading
...on the Internet Backslash Scott's Weekend Reading ReclaimUC: I owe reclaimUC an email, which has gone politely unmentioned by reclaimUC. On gift horses and Trojan horses: The proposed aquatics center...
Infinite Jestice
...Photo of Abderrahman Anwar al-Awlaki. Unattributed source. The Disposition Matrix Yesterday witnessed arguably the most substantial journalistic investigation into the Obama administration's secret 'kill list' program since the...
Lost in the Supermarket
...prescient: “Things have an ugly look still. No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in...