Scary Negroes with Guns
...been killed—killed with a last thought of innocence in a culture that heralds guns, torture and war in billion-dollar-grossing video games. The violent state promotes the idea of non-violent protest...
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...individualised "Cowboys" that Kraus has in mind here aren't hoi polloi. Although Kraus could sound like an elitist, she wasn't in the business of denigrating the masses or lowbrow culture;...
Little Magazines and the Conversation of Culture in America
...The New School for Social Research presents a conference called "little magazines & The Conversation of Culture in America," Thursday November 12 – Friday November 13 2015. The...
Model Behavior
...hair and skin and silicone and dig out a “genuine” person, untouched by culture and context. Smart girls know that “real beauty” is just a tag line to sell moisturizer....
Pose
...has long plagued both ball and drag culture. After the success of Paris Is Burning, the brilliance of these arts was snatched up by the cishet masses. Once secret, underground...
Play Fair, Run Fast, and Smile for the Camera
...the Washington Redskins, D.C.’s football team and, in local culture, its only relevant sports franchise, did. The team abandoned Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, down the street from the Capitol, for...
The Floral Is the Political
...their own culture whether it’s American culture or Western culture as a whole. If you look at Iranian culture then yes, I could say that every Iranian artist, however they...
Hate and Basketball
...raised white and bourgeois in Seattle (an essentially culture-less sphere) and to become a basketball player was to marinate in a foreign culture (of black hip-hop), and to dedicate effort...
Contemporary Scottish Friction
...Alasdair Gray Eden and After (1965-66) via Scottish National Gallery The coming Scottish independence vote has given new energy to the would-be national literary culture The crowd were...
Welcome to "Dietland": Beauty and Subversion
...tube, and another woman is nearly crushed to death by eyebrow pencils. Which makes sense, as beauty culture itself can be nearly as ludicrous: We put hot wax on our...
"The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor" London book launch
...of Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor hosted by Ibraaz. The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor is a chronicle of a campaign at the forefront of a new wave of worldwide cultural activism....
Interview with Kate Zambreno
...in dismantling the idea of genius. I think that this sort of depression can come out of the culture. And I think it has something to do with how girls...
An Interview with George Scialabba
...the great neglected resources of European culture. I try to say why in the essay “Shipwrecked” in The Modern Predicament. Lawrence was a bit archaic and exotic; Christopher Lasch was...
Welcome to Life as a Stepford Wife: The Politics of Self-Care in the 19th Century
...| Creative Commons It would be almost a decade before beauty products would be mass-produced and readily available through mail order. In the meantime, beauty culture was maintained by women’s...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Gendered Observation: The Contribution of Women to the Astronomical Diaries of Mesopotamia
...the Astronomical Diaries, or if there is even value to searching for them, can rewrite a domain of Mesopotamian culture where gender is traditionally assumed male or forgotten entirely. The...