Making Black Lives Matter in the Mall of America
...attention.” The flow of capital in the Mall of America reflects and perhaps concentrates the culture outside its walls. On the streets outside, a similar business as usual prevails. And...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12
...texture and Black culture most certainly intersects with Whiteness." Eau de classics: This soap company sounds exquisite, taking inspiration from their scents from works of classic music and literature. Roses...
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, January 5, 2016
...kind of material critique of gendered labor, it will just put a bunch of women out of work. • • • Kill it kill it kill it kill it...
America Dads: Louis CK and Barack Obama
...culture—television evolved the particular kinds of narrative genres that it did by reference to the developing new forms of “normal” social life, a form of social life in which father...
Media is Better Police
...Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Police don’t kill people either, and that’s because, when it comes down to it, police are more guns than people, objects not only...
Conspicuous Consumption
...family and friends and ultimately to the nonhuman animals who would lose an active ally. Would never go back to supporting a culture of exploitation and violence by eating animal...
Paranoid Androids
...were U.S. citizens but because the kill was instrumental in catapulting the drone campaign into the public spotlight. A successful engineer disappears beneath the exterior of his or her creation....
Keeping Kayfabe
...combined with a tried and true strategy to work an audience. But that official explanation ignores that the entire history of wrestling is the history of monopolistic collusion. This is...
Louder Than Bombs
...I was wrapped in bandages. I tried to move them, but I couldn’t, so I asked, “Did you cut off my legs?” They said no, but I kind of knew....
more tired, more frustrated, more rotten
...she tried to theorize--using a familiar set of theoretical texts and continental philosophers--how and where and why some kinds of life become “grievable” while others do not. When Israeli children...
The Oceanic Feeling
...a path through the crumbling infrastructure of the American dream. It has been said that while liberals won the culture wars of recent decades, the right won the political and...
Up for debate
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
Continental Drift
...from without and crumbling from within. This new Europe has tried to divorce itself from the previous century’s wars and genocides, as if the continent was born anew in the...
The City that Care Remembered
...who came in charity. I’ve been thinking about how anti-Black violence is still a wingnut idea to many people. “The government tried to kill 100,000 Black people in New Orleans.”...
Where the Hell Do You Think You Are?
...History has fallen of Chaplin’s dreams. But there’s something else unnerving about this speech besides the disappointments of History. The speech begins with the very same music that played throughout...
The Fight and the Whale
...helped shape and reshape rock music. Reed didn't need to hire a famous artist to do the cover of his first record, because THE MOST FAMOUS ARTIST ON THE PLANET...