Fake Painting
...like successful forgers are closer to these fantastic stereotypes than other kinds of art criminals. That’s absolutely right, and I teach forgery differently than other categories of art crime. Forgergery...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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.”...