Reading Like a Loser
...is to see how politics can be “a species-changing practice.” What’s more, to extend the limits of society is also to stretch those of culture. For Bull, the cultural counterpart...
I Want to Believe
...countless forms in the popular imagination, permeating pop culture, politics, and the persecution anxieties of our booming psychiatric industry. Films like The Adjustment Bureau and television programs like Burn Notice...
The Science of What Makes Pain So Personal
...to ways of experiencing the environment that vary according to the perceptual modulation of the individual.” In other words, Petrie surmised, something more innate than culture and willpower determines how...
The Roads Not Taken
...as in his courtship of Brando, Kerouac strongly conceived of literature as a part of the American culture industry – the machinery of what he called the Beat Generation. Brando...
Single Servings
...desirable is conditioned by culture. Slater, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and current Fast Company contributor, repackages those banal truisms as vaguely alarming yet exciting developments. “New means of...
Fifty Shades of Yellow
...integration into the culture industry’s established circuits of value. The term “tinhat” originated in the stereotype of conspiracy theorists blocking out foreign, telepathic transmissions to their brains by wearing tinfoil...
Sleepwalking Through the Ruins
...the terrain of Signs and Machines, which begins in the deep canyon of subject formation and wends its way over the darkling plain of late-capitalist culture before arriving at the...
Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!
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A Very Brief History of Viking Victuals
...a source of pride. Publications on Old Norse culture started appearing as early as the 16th century. It all started in 1867, when excavators digging in a burial mound on...
Do the Robot
...through warm service, "hiring for attitude and training for skill." The authors of the HBR article note that the company "doesn’t lack for press about its positive organizational culture and...
Beauty Blogosphere 11.16.12
...of gay (male) culture with fashion (female-ish) culture means that it can be mighty easy for gay men to cross lines of objectification and harassment, mistakenly thinking that because they're...
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
Soft Rebellion
...the West understands it, did not exist as a concept in Chinese culture until Han Han’s generation discovered it. And like their foreign counterparts, they find it an endlessly renewable...
The Unfuckables
...effects of a scopophilic culture that doesn’t permit them to flourish. New York magazine writer Ariel Levy's 2005 cultural study Female Chauvinist Pigs described a new kind of misogyny perpetrated...
The Year of Magical Thinking
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC
Wild Wild East
...as two other Worlds’ Fairs). In various popular culture depictions, he is at once lauded for his fierce commitment to defending the freedom of his people and reviled for his...