First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
...epic’s prodigious sway over the popular Hindu culture and its unique relationship to history has made this possible. In the West, one encounters the epic as a literary genre that...
Digital Dark Spaces
...is not essentially so different from the culture of cruising that bourgeois gay men created in public urinals and in the cloakroom at the House of Lords. Though the sex...
World of Weathercraft
...the effects of climate change. It is startling how much researchers and governments have tried to do to gain control over the weather, in documented, public fact. Cloud seeding, the...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
...sion: to calm an inner world (“she tried to compose herself”), artistic ren- dition (“to compose and draw a still life”), and construction or placement (“the system is composed of...
K in Love
...and the spikes of the E cutting into our palms, blood pooling at the centre of the O. Either it (love) was the blandishments of culture seducing us, Robert Pattinson...
The Mirror Stage
...has tried to demarcate a line between the two. But this line was erected for specific purposes that benefit binary (or binary-presenting), cisgender gay people at the expense of transgender...
Making It: A Miseducation
...us to be. We knew that our mothers had loved our fathers. We knew that they were hurt by our fathers—but we were too. We tried to understand what was...
A Connecting Thing
...religions, books and song. What if Parisians would see? What if U.S. Americans saw after Nine Eleven? Shunned their cowboy and sinister senators? Read and investigated, instead? Tried the guilty...
The Worst Hair Dryer in the World
...take at least six more weeks, because I'm lazy about the stupidest things—it got me thinking about how people might've tried to commodify hair before blow-dryers were around. (The first...
Beauty Blogosphere Summer Solstice
...tried yet—nay, products in general!—but when the goodie in question is a nail polish named after one of her favorite beauty bloggers, The Reluctant Femme, it's totally principled, right? Or...
Commuter Riots
...NFL commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, tried to replicate bucolic Sunday tailgate services at Arrowhead across the league, fueling a few fiery championship street riots in the process. A couple years after...
This Week in Art Crime
...Mr Shannon told the police after his arrest he committed the thoughtless act of vandalism in an attempt to ‘get back at the state’ however while in court he tried...
Dances With Anarchists
...Goldman’s father beat her with a whip. She battled with authority at the school, too, denied a character reference needed to continue her education. One teacher’s report called the twelve-year-old...
Beauty Work and Intrinsic Motivation
...not particularly helpful advice to someone who's trying to make exercise a habit, though, so I tried to remember what got me to the point of workouts being habit. A...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in mind that although she tried to dress and dance like poor Afro-Brasileras, as a white woman she never would have had to carry a fruit basket on her head....
Occupy A Bank
...to start sitting down inside those banks. #OccupyLA has already tried this, and members got arrested after trying to cash a $673 billion dollar check to “the people of California.”...