Sade Is Punk as Fuck
...sometimes in the guise of an intentionally abrasive avant-gardist innovation. Punk wasn't merely a genre of music; that is, like all genres it aspired to become a totalizing lifestyle, though...
Convenience of Streaming Services
...Day Rising, try this. If you care about music, you probably won't let Spotify dictate what you can or can't hear, and digital reproduction has made it fairly likely that...
Hollow Inside
...that eradicates the humanist pleasures of culture — thus seems misplaced. We haven't been "depersonalized" but hyperpersonalized by the ways technology has abetted consumerism. So his concerns about people becoming...
Death and Life in Great American Cities
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
American Saints
...Street Journal would ever locate one source of America’s culture of innovation in the agricultural ingenuity of the Sikh communities of early twentieth-century California. For their success challenges the idea...
♫ Roxane ♫
...folks. This is not what Gay is about. In an interview with NPR she explains that we “have a really stylized understanding of trauma in popular culture where something bad...
Army of Un
...a culture of such outlandish misinformation that the Western media and its audience often respond with laughter. Incredulous, horrified, uncontrollable laughter, more indicative of disturbance and fear than amusement. As...
Cruel Pessimism
A new book on debt reminds us that we have not left the time of crisis yet
Let's Tell This Story
...culture. Like many Africans of my generation, Marechera's characters paid homage to African literature by taking it for granted as something that didn't need to be rationalized or justified; more...
Naked Criticism
...in an undressed, matter-of-fact way. But in their unfolding they build an account of the culture industry as a kind of dreamscape, one that elaborates all our fears and fantasies...
Born Under the Tobacco Flower, and Raised Under the Lis
Dreams of a separatist Quebec nation are founded on conservative, racist attachments to bloodline that leftist adherents cannot so quickly disavow
Community Slander
...York Times. Buffington, who founded Yik Yak with his fraternity brother Tyler Droll, sees their app as a corrective to the (micro)celebrity culture of Twitter. On Yik Yak, they claim,...
The Journalist and the Suicide
...a culture of therapy whose super-coddling, super-encouraging style verges on patronizing. Accounts like Finkel’s convey a general sense of the problem. This many months on the VA waitlist, that much...
The Future Is Femme
...point when the rational neoliberal approach to intelligence collection ousted the honor-bound gentlemanly spy culture of the Second World War. The melancholy of generational irrelevance is present everywhere in Tinker....
The Future Is Female
...spy culture of the Second World War. The melancholy of generational irrelevance is present everywhere in Tinker. Here, we see the contemplative hero as forced retiree: beekeeper, constant gardener, chess...
Live Through This
...more often than women. But our culture is unable to address rape with the sobriety and clarity the topic deserves because we are still unable to address sex with the...