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?
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...
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
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....
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
It has always been profound to me that the brass ring is a brass ring.
...come to be seen as both the precursor and hallmark of success. And so also the object of imitation. Hence our present culture of imitation. In this culture a successful...
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...
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,...
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...were signs with the names of the dead, alongside messages calling for an end to discrimination against favela dwellers, as well as demanding the right of public safety. Brazil's musicians...
Sunday Reading
...Nina Simone sings one of my favorite songs Bint Battuta Maqha, Ahweh: An Etude in Café A list of some ethnic stereotypes in Syriac The name and the face: on...
RUPTURES: Between the City and the Art World
...by thisistomorrow on the 12th December and archived on their website: thisistomorrow.info. For more information: [email protected] The full programme will be available on: www.rupturesinplaces.com To book FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruptures-between-the-city-and-the-art-world-tickets-19674357533...
Life During Wartime
Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War
The Wintourian Candidate
...dancer he had been, at one time, well-acquainted with. He told about how, through her, he went to Japan in the early ’80s and met Comme des Garçons designer Rei...
cartography's nausea
...It is well known that the atlas made in Japan and the atlases made abroad, let’s say in London, have different compositions. That is, Japan is placed at...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...We’ve tried pretty much everything, and they just ignore us. We’ve talked to state legislators, written petitions, mobilized people on campus. The next step for us is in the tradition...