Border Control
...long, using them both as subject and medium, and it seems like the wider culture is finally catching up to you. As a very early adopter, why do you think...
Smash Images from Antiquity
...continues, in voiceover: “The Assyrians, Akkadians, and others took for themselves gods of rain, of agriculture, and of war, and worshipped them along with Allah, and tried to appease them...
No Purchase Necessary
...FacebookTwitterGoogle universe is materially based on the insight that a new digital advertising model could be extracted from a culture already obsessed with representing itself through brand affiliations. It implicated...
Variations on a Theme: #Ferguson
...situation was the car culture and the way cars were used in a few ways to confuse the police, block them and also just tie them up. West Florissant, the...
Bully Meets World
...country has been largely punitive. The 2011 documentary Bully singles out teachers and administrators who tolerate a culture of bullying in their school buildings, strongly suggesting that schools should impose...
Pinterest and the acquisitive gaze
...of all things (included in The Culture of Consumption collection edited by Jackson Lears and Richard Fox; well worth the $1 it's selling for) Jean-Christophe Agnew argues that the consumerist...
Playing Outside
...weirdos in the late 1970s and early 1980s founded what would become gaming culture. Rogue programmers and witty, countercultural Steve Jobs types built awkward, secretive text adventures and later led...
The Lives of Others
...mankind, of which he imagines himself the archetype: “We live in a culture that is completely mediated and artificial, rendering us (me, anyway; you, too?) exceedingly distracted, bored, and numb.”...
Queering the Void
...aesthetics. The aspirational ease of suburbia figures prominently into the seminal example of drag cinema, Paris Is Burning, a document of ball culture in 1980s New York. Though its cast...
Namaste Inc.
...boost tourism. The Ministry promoted not only local attractions; it also presented a carefully constructed image of the country and its culture. For example, a promotional campaign featuring renowned Bollywood...
The Critic in Culture
...The role of the critic in culture: guardian/gatekeeper of the gift...
Hillbilly Ethnography
...of industry is not responsible for “a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it,” that reacts “to bad circumstances in the worst way possible”: with hedonism, materialism,...
The Soft Boys
...aligned with the queer readings, elicited by pop culture, that are an old standby of fandom and fannish production: from the romantic pairing of Kirk and Spock in Star Trek...
Intimacy as Text; Twitter as Toungue
...A recent New York Times op-ed, “Tweet Less, Kiss More,” laments the frenetic pace of our lives, the multitasking that apparently so plagues digital culture. A glowing review...
Mexican Is Not a Race
Poet Wendy Trevino argues that a radical new Chicanx politics means forging an identity based on shared political struggle, not myths of racial homogeneity--an idea rooted in anarchist struggles along the Texas-Mexican border a century ago
Adventures in Candyland
...it being inspired, proposed out of nothing and, at its best, set up in opposition to its culture. In his new novel Satin Island, McCarthy creates fiction that is so...