Vol. 19 Editors' Note: "Art"
...development in culture and society, posing new questions—or, let’s face it, the same old questions—as to where the work resides and how we should look at it. Parker Ito’s America...
Data Occupations
...out a Quantified Self meet-up. In this way, the group aids and abets the corporations seeking to capitalize on its culture, even as both Quantified Self and QSers practice what...
Turtles from the Shells
...journey” may have been an appropriate structure for George Lucas’s Star Wars or Steve Case’s AOL business plan, but it was no longer an appropriate map for a culture that...
Who Are You and What Do You Really Know?
Gaslighting and Dolezalean logic
The White Women of Empire
...de-sexualized barbarians whose country we must infiltrate and dominate to protect our citizens from current danger and our culture from future threat. But it is clear that the helpless and/or...
Facebook division of labor and the rewired society
...everything is always beta. "Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic" -- of course it is, just like neoliberalism, or capitalism itself. Markets always let the deserving "win." I'm...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.18.12
...whose situation makes salon work the best job option for you—but you come from a culture that considers touching other people's feet a demeaning taboo? ...And Everything In Between: Red...
Instructions for Young Manhood
...CrossFit. Before there was physical culture, there was MacFadden. * A person naked in a bedroom is an animal. A person naked here is an undressed machine. * If your...
Beside the Point: Appearance Anxiety in Eating Disorders
...culture. So about one-sixth of eating disorders can be blamed on cultural environment, like the pictures we’re shown.... If we magically were able to suddenly change the images we see...
Sorry Not Sorry
...came to adjudicate his crimes. Who will question Oprah, the billionaire who broadcasts poor people’s slobbering and screaming for her handouts, who christens the literature of our narcissistic culture of...
Vol. 22 Editors' Note: Self-Help
...evils of digital culture. Jesse Barron’s “Instructions For Young Manhood” gives some helpful advice to young dudes on how to behave in the gym, tracing the links between the cult...
How It Feels to Be Free
Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske discuss Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet and translator after the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
Past Perfecting
...manipulations, began as a painter. His unique combination printing, which blended multiple negatives together, created a new way of altering the image and expanding photography’s creative potential. The culture of...
Holy Land
...relevant, innovative, and progressive. Simultaneously, Israel’s neighbors (and the Palestinians it controls) are positioned as, at best, out of touch with liberal transnational culture and, at worst, undeveloped and reactionary....
California
...of the cozy 4,000-square- foot homes along the Orange County coastline, detecting in their stucco right angles and overstuffed pillows the glimmerings of a queer suburban culture. Holding down the...
Festival Life
...also be seen as a symptom of the halcyon days of economic collapse. The shopping mall as site zombified consumer culture has been a trope in popular cinema as long...