On the Variety of Ways to Not Praise Charlie Hebdo
...secular state but a competing cultural system? This is what it is: a cultural system that brooks no competition. A believer has difficulty with the idea that their culture is...
Reign in Drool
...outer experience. Yet their dependence on concrete rules have created a culture disproportionately fond of logic. Players romance the poetry of the command prompt while ignoring the entropic ennui of...
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...
New Neighbor, Who's This?
The sitcom trope of the intrusive neighbor isn't required in an era that treats exclusion as a social necessity
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...
"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....
Sewing Dissent
...to ape foreign manners. Women especially took great pride in cultivating a vigorous and enlightened domestic culture. The housewife dishing out apple pie wasn't simply feeding her brood; she was...
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...
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...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing