Mourning
...the idea that human culture itself can be thought of as an elaborate work of mourning, our lives beholden to an original loss. Laqueur’s new book on death unearths the...
Fact Check!
...the fact-checkers I’ve ever known just didn't want to be responsible for inaccuracies. The people Gopnik cites were nevertheless onto something. A new culture of fact-checking is emerging in the...
St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene
...How does such a definition come to take hold, when the culture it emerges from is filled with very explicit accounts of horror, from the zombie film to the serial...
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...invitation with a torrent of JPEGs tagged with commentary on rape culture, on the allegations against him, and further lambasting his hypocritical respectability politics. I have no idea what he...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
...hasn't nevermind. Geekery 101: I've seen snippets of some not-great news about sexism in geek culture lately, but since I fall more on the dork end of the spectrum than...
Take Me Away
A love letter to Mariah Carey
Reader's Digest
...A Review of Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac So strange and hectic a phantasmagoria were the streets of the...
Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
Hurt People
The state cannot destroy us the way we destroy each other
Reality Fiction
...to me that maybe inadvertently you sort of put yourself into the literary tradition. SH: I guess all of us were watching TV. And it felt like the whole culture,...
In Defense of Looting
...weren’t part of the protest!” or words to that effect, they are trying to fight a horrifically racist history of black people depicted in American culture as robbers and thieves:...
Artistic autonomy and subsumption
...a feeling of autonomy? What does it even matter if an artwork is autonomous? Doesn't that just mean that the culture has succeeded in depoliticizing it? Is autonomy a form...
Plantation Neoliberalism
...opposite direction.” It is, in other words, a flight from reconstituted plantations to somewhere else, a refusal of work and work’s culture whose negative movement opens space for something new....
Anti-Fascisting
“None of us, under capitalism, can claim to be wholly free of fascism.” An interview with Natasha Lennard.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.8.12
...the ways that we've transformed celebrities into objects. It's a case study of culture-wide objectification: "Listen, I enjoy pop culture. I like movies and television, and I like pop music,...
The Devil’s Playground
On wondering over sexual memory, and the pressure to conform to dominant narratives of violation