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...
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...
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...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)
...as he strove to look at them with ease and indifference, a faint stain of personal shame and commiseration rose to his own face. Angry with himself he tried to...
Recoil Operation
...than any other developed country,” with a chart featuring predictable comparisons to Japan, Austria, New Zealand, and others on the OECD list of Developed Nations. Though Mexico is certainly “developed”...
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...flicks a feed. My interest doesn't lie in the general anthropological overhaul bound up with the digital, for which the phone has come to serve as one particularly visible index....
Sunday Reading
...by acting Jewishly, not by looking for "Jewish identity" ReclaimUC: Why is an accrediting commission trying to close California's largest public college? Wall St loves frats How the MLA "job...
Terrifying Robot Update, February 24, 2015
...the fruit over the runner’s head and hold it in front of his mouth. (via) Actually to be honest I think that's kind of adora... OH GOD KILL IT...
Public Spaces
...an analysis of contemporary art and media culture, where he describes the proliferation of artworks that unfold in time—from film and video to durational performance—as an implicit affirmation of modernism's...
Anthropocene Realism
...do all the forced smiles and awkward testimonials in the Williston promotional video. It is tempting to dismiss its pathos as the futile efforts of a culture in decline, but...
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, March 24, 2015
...At 0:09 is the face you'll see when you wake up to her standing over your bed, knife in hand • • • This classical music is nice...
The Beautiful Struggle
A meditative syllabus on Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
The Fake as More
...response, Lana shrugged and said that really, she should’ve tried harder. “Had I known so many people were going to watch [it],” she told The Daily Star in 2012, “I’d...
Pussy Riot's U.S. Tour?
...in the “fatherland.” The band has derived their success — and scorn — by turning contemporary punk culture on its head. Where punk was once relegated to musky basements, squats,...
The Honeyed Siphon
...who cannot be made to understand the necessity of abstaining from bread, potatoes, apples etc., it becomes a very difficult task to teach them what to eat, drink and avoid.”...