First-Person Deficient
...culture," in this case — which emerges "from the implicit, and even buried dimension of language" to give more a sense of "a 'mentality' made of unconscious grammatical patterns and...
Sunday Reading: August 6, 2023
...of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down....
Real Inauthentic Like
...on the idea of an “ailing literary culture,” lamenting that each and every novel published now clamors to be heard like church bells rung by wild sugar high children: “All...
Games
...reaches an apotheosis in contemporary work culture: Be creative! We’ve got a pool table and a beer fridge and a big open office without cubicles and no benefits and an...
Weight Gains
...culture of laziness and excess à la Wall-E’s floating invalids: claims centered on specifically U.S.-American attitudes to work or disposable income level must be chucked. So what has caused this...
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
...is an art form that tells us as much about Balinese culture as ethnographic chestnuts like kinship structures or gift giving. The cockfight “is, for the Balinese, a kind of...
Very Serious Populists
...(some of whom are moderators) may not see an article dissecting rape culture as something that “contributes to the conversation” of r/comedy. The voting system is left as the proving...
The Enduring Legacy of Basquiat’s Hair
...grafitti, Basquiat set the culture that the Native Tongues would inherit. He died in 1988, right as the Tongues’ most prominent group, A Tribe Called Quest, debuted. They were the...
Top or Bottom: How do we desire?
What do queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique?
Faked in China
...where unscrupulous business practices sully the intellectual property of hardworking Euro-American brand owners, or attempt to offer a “cultural” explanation—that is, a racist one, holding Chinese culture as incapable of...
Lessons of Engagement
...of extinction. Schooled in French and its imperial culture, Adnan was drawn at a young age to Lebanon’s local language and poetry, which she was discouraged from learning. (She said...
The New Somali Studies
...arrived in Zeila, his first stop before traveling through the rest of Somaliland and the broader Horn of Africa. He was keenly interested in the culture, beliefs, and practices of...
Vol. 17 Editors' Note: Rules of the Game
...are always encouraged, as long as they’re not deployed against the logic of the game. This reaches an apotheosis in contemporary work culture: Be creative! We’ve got a pool table...
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
...Jain’s pronouncement that, ‘‘all of us in American risk culture live to some degree in prognosis.” Prognosis, a trajectory which maps the likely outcome of pathogenic danger, structures national crises...
Cooking Class
...years of writing The Austerity Kitchen, my blog about alimentary culture and history, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that some of the best food writing (in the United States,...
Virus in the System
The radical collective Gay Shame keeps the flame of anticapitalist queer politics burning.