The Resentment Machine
...but they are equally unable to cast off the social-climbing aspirations that this lifestyle represents. Their parentage and their culture teach them to at once hunger for the material goods...
Cat Power
..."Cuties in Japan" remains the authoritative text on this. She writes, Cute culture started as youth culture amongst teenagers, especially young women. Cute culture was not founded by business. But...
Call for Papers: Theorizing the Web 2015
...speculative fiction, sci-fi --Games, gamification, game culture --Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, disability, and other forms of inequality (taken separately or woven into any of the above)...
Consent Mixtape
...Some of the songs in this mixtape are about yielding to music, some of them are about yielding to desire, and some of them are about the consent inherent in...
The Lossless Self
...of understanding fidelity. In genres such as punk, lo-fi, and noise music, unwanted sounds conventionally heard as impediments to fidelity are heard as signs of enhanced authenticity. Those who appreciate...
Together We Are None
...electro-fied disco tunes of traditional folkish songs like “Rasputin” or “Rivers of Babylon,” and selling it to a primarily white, German audience. It reminds me of music I heard from...
Paranoia at the Disco
...a monotonous, robotic beat. Disco culture was said to be consumerist and celebrity-obsessed: a milieu where fashionably dressed somebodies could carouse inside a club while the nobodies were stuck behind...
Finer Things
...pop music is always ultimately committed to. It's a shame Bateman didn't find the time in his general laying-waste to the shibboleths of 1980s culture to take down the single-most...
How the Bronx was Branded
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
it's not surprising that we get bitter, that we cling to gun control
...a kind of utopianism, the idea that if we got rid of the objects themselves, the desire for them, the need for them, and the culture that is built around...
The Dandelion and the Lucky Peach
...The column starts off with Bourdain recounting the basics of Chang’s biography: “After becoming disenchanted with work in the financial-services sector, Chang traveled to Japan to teach English and study...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Solid Personal Achievements
...that you’re married. As an Igbo girl, you know our culture (Cuts in again) What does our culture do? Let me tell you about our culture. This thing that you...
Alienated Nerds
NFTs as gentrified fandom and the destruction of cultural autonomy in the digital age
Let Us Eat Cake
...can? As ReclaimUC pointed out, there's an entire theory of politics embedded in that narrative of saving the UC through re-branding: the best way to pressure politicians to stop de-funding...
"Organic stories"
...Image by Sophie Kern Facebook recently changed its News Feed algorithm, which determines which content users see of all the stuff shared by the other users they have...
The Development Imaginary: Tracks*
...most is the effect the development imaginary has had on our freedom dreams. The development imaginary has hobbled our thinking. It continues to limit our dreams. It cannot teach us...