Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Digital Runways, Paper Dolls
...screens displayed immediately recognizable emblems of British culture: Big Ben, the London Eye, and fittingly, British fashion models dressed in Burberry trench coats carrying umbrellas printed with the iconic Burberry...
An A B C of Puerility: Anderson, Britten, Crane
...their scouting very seriously. Funnier still is the truest true believer, the adult Scoutmaster Ward, who avers that being a scout master is his real job: "I teach math on...
Going LeBron
...wondered why I had worried so much about the SAT, and consoled myself with the vodka, which was invariably third-rate, and the music, which seemed like the best thing ever...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)
...other contemporary movements. This could certainly be attributed to the opacity gained by controlling the territory and a relatively widespread culture of anonymity. Yet these factors alone could not have...
Sunday Reading
...bookselling on Baghdad's Mutanabbi Street How heritage is created by destruction in Bahrain Screen portrayals of the fictional Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi Hindustani music in colonial Bombay Western classical music...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.10.12
...and mainstream beauty culture: "The study claims that beautiful people make more money than not beautiful people, but last time I checked, dykes still make less than cis-men." The larger...
Social Media, Social Factory
...This paper was presented on May 19, 2011, at the Post/Autonomia Conference, University of Amsterdam. Image via the Social Media Chronicles, by Jam Zhang In The Culture of...
Late Night Is All We Have
A diary from two days in Dallas
Droning On
...of heroism, so important for any military culture’s self-delusions, and counterfeit it. Chamayou shows how, to reconcile this glaring obscenity, “heroism” itself has to change meanings in order to be...
Sunday Reading: October 15, 2023
...that the US military and the IDF regularly swap resources and personnel––Puar notes a major biopolitical difference: while anti-Black policing usually shoots to kill, the IDF typically “shoots to maim.”...
August 9th, 2014
There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all
The White Man’s Boredom
Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims
Whistleblowers Get the Bullet, Too
Coming forward with the state's secrets is not a ticket to absolution
Vagina Analogues
...for being who we are. Like vibrators, drones will inevitably proliferate far beyond the clinical confines of their original use. The devices of warmaking have already bled into amusement culture,...
This Week in Art Crime
...four men were allegedly carrying red paint. The words “KILL FRATS” and “Kill ASUC” were spray-painted onto the pillars of Sather Gate, and the message “KILL REGENT$,” along with a...