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...
Precarity and "affective resistance"
...networks). I thought then that we would experience any attempt to carry us back to the values pre-market culture as unfreedom, the loss of possibilities, despite the ways in which...
Called to Account
...La Berge, who are making crucial interventions about how social relations and culture are shaped by financialization. There’s a lot of work out there about neoliberal discipline and how discourses...
Unacceptable Bodies
...cases, Ashley’s case illustrates that the very language we use to describe and justify medical and ethical decision making comes from and reinforces a culture of medicalization. Key to creating...
TNI Syllabus: Gaming and Feminism
...Death of the Player •Celia Pearce & Friends: Experimental Game Design • • • Straight White Males: Video Game Media and Gaming Culture •Maddy Myers: Gaming, rape culture, and how...
Self-Help
...about the growing “digital detox” movement, which is more about policing our desire for autonomy than protecting ourselves from the evils of digital culture. Jesse Barron’s “Instructions For Young Manhood”...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.23.12
...inherent licentiousness, it only makes sense for modesty bloggers to apply "modesty" judiciously—but the contradiction is undeniable. Our culture's definition of "modesty" is tricky indeed (note how it's never applied...
Eric's Trip
...hot air and opacity, contributing to a general impoverishment of British political culture. His polemic is censorious yet witty, offsetting a surly, jaded disaffection — the man, one feels, has...
Remains of the Day
...state that the face is a redundancy in Western capitalist culture. 14. Fame is said to have a price, but fame is all price. The cost of human cost. 15....
View From Nowhere
...sure. In contemporary culture, Big Data promises this relief. As the name suggests, Big Data is about size. Many proponents of Big Data claim that massive databases can reveal a...
Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton
...of Bullhampton, Trollope is trying to tease out an ideal of forgiveness from within a stratified, patriarchal culture structured by inherited privilege, property settlements through marriage, and primogeniture — all...
No Accidents, Comrade
...increasingly crowd out the chance new discoveries will be made. Narratives using chance in American culture — the rags-to-riches story, or immigrant emigration story lines — are so prominent, they...
Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age
...quickly became famous for sharing their most intimate secrets, for getting metaphorically naked in public. Confessional literature is by no means new. In The Culture of Narcissism, for instance, Christopher...
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...express our uniqueness through the material culture we assembled for ourselves. Without consumer goods, our true self would rest dormant within us, untouched by the desire that could vivify it....
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...
Kippers for Breakfast
...economic globalization, life within America was becoming ever more vertiginous, as American culture was situated at the vanishing point reflected in two mirrors pointed at each other. Growing up as...