Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy
No Money in Movies
...money, many of these artists are now faced with shrinking budgets and crowded release windows, which makes their work smaller in scale and less relevant to the culture at large....
Beauty Blogosphere 6.14.13
...am not the culture of Lululemon. Everyone is the culture of Lululemon." (Ayn Rand would be so disappointed!) Who will succeed her is anyone's guess; Forbes predicts Lululemon will make...
The Clock Inside Us
...body and embed it within the culture of busyness. If clocks are agents that shape human actions, is it valid to assume that clocks are an “other”? By making sure...
White Bodies, Black Faces
...disaster for American politics and culture. But there are all these other people who are left with really profound questions about where we’re going as a country, about solidarity. Some...
Arguing the Web (3): Post-Text
...culture of self-centered, distracted readers who forgot the MLA guidelines for correct citation. The real interest lies in criticism about the growing culture of subjectivity that puts feelings before facts,...
You Belong Here, Beloved Reader - An Interview with Diriye Osman
"I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session"
Gut of the Quantifier
...practice eludes codification, it provides a living resource for the preservation of oral culture ... Senior executives, because of the authority they enjoy, have been able to preserve the orality...
Death Dreams
...of our craven soullessness. “Consciously or not, Houellebecq’s writing exhibits the schizophrenic pull of consumption culture,” Jeffery writes, “how unreal it seems and yet how enmeshed in it we remain.”...
The Year of Magical Thinking
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC
First-Person Corporate
...novels Michaels regards as paradigmatically neoliberal in their themes and conceits. , he also detects in the culture itself. He writes in "What Matters," an August 2009 piece for The...
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...
Memory and Preservation
...was already frayed and past any possible human repair. In these futures, we lose past and present. The inhabitants of “Imaginum” therefore take steps to preserve and protect culture,...
Coming Out of the Coffin
...culture. The British public's fascination with details of Wilde's trials resulted in a broad condemnation of his character. Even in homosexual circles, Wilde was persona non grata for the rest...
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 Devil You Know
...writers like Gaiman, Morrison, Moore, and Ellis. As comics culture has become more mainstream, the room for oppositional comics is restricted. Hellblazer now sells a third of what it did...