Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control
...they are free members of society; and they are — attention to food and drink, exercise, education, music and morals, combined with steady industry. Holidays and free alcohol might well...
Own to Rent
...authentication to limit the number of devices on which software can be activated, to encrypting e-books in such a way that sharing is constrained, to encrypting movies and music to...
This Week in Art Crime
...went to these artificial beaches and enjoyed the feeling of being on holidays. I wondered why people were so easily manipulated, as if sand, drinks, music, and a tub of...
The Art of Movement: #FreeCeebo
...movement. Revolutionary art looks like a music video the shooting of which is itself a protest, a protest whose content also produces the lyrics. Ezell Ford was murdered by LAPD...
Miracle Devices
The medical-device industry has been mobilized against the patients it purportedly serves
Some Country for Some Women
As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.
Echoes of Ghadar @ Pace U 10/25-27
...The convergence aims to revive the often forgotten history of the Ghadar movement, through: a celebration of music, films, and conversations among grassroots activists from South Asia and the...
Boy 2 Man
...development, we’re sticking them with the bill. Socialization is not simply a function of maternal attachment, and Mason encounters a culture of toxic masculinity inside and outside the home. No...
Cool Front/
Hot Mess
...so coy. Open your ears to their music. Contemporary hip-hop and pop have no time for plausible deniability. Rappers like their status symbols delivered straight-up. There’s no irony or distancing...
Fuck You, Here's a Rainbow
...And other essays about music. Click here or on the image for your free download!...
Too Foreign
...in her afterword: “when to prioritize the music and when the meaning.” Lispector’s Portuguese is, we are told by both translators, a sonorous web of repetitions, intent more on establishing...
Grammar Lessons
...sought to satirize than much of what passes for relevant cinema from the era. Movies like this almost never get included in those categorizations of quality our self-destructing culture is...
Piece of Candy
...— Candy Darling The specter of the “superstar,” that shining icon who transfixes our collective gaze, looms large over contemporary culture. On television, RuPaul’s catty Drag Race reality competition recently...
Private Life Drama
...of late-night dancing, where to “some insane European music that contained centrifugal forces… almost every man present asked [Moscow] to dance, finding in her something that had been lost in...
“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection
...Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume.” What then of the vulnerable? The high risk? The authors of the Declaration simply state: “People who are more at risk...
Selfie-Correction
...behind the practice establishes a cyclical association between the image and female subject, in which each is enlisted to reinforce the low status of the other. A music video by...