Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)
...wasn’t even Spanish, I’m certain he was a gypsy or Eastern European”) Buñuel’s blind street musician Single frames from Los Olvidados, 16mm film in digital transfer, courtesy of Harvard Film...
Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
"Shadow Run"
...Only empire makes this possible. Image from the 2015 USO calendar....
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
...Head novel, let’s try the one that won’t confuse people. DONE. I’m giving Nicholls some good-natured sass, here (sorry dude), because, as someone who studies, reads, and teaches contemporary African...
Canceled Message (Part Two)
...one in which the internet becomes a "stream," an image that conjures more of a gently babbling brook than the digital culture shock I just described. The ubiquity of the...
Bookin' It
...Schuster in 2015. Writing a book has been a longtime goal of mine, and writing this book—a comprehensive "where are we now?" survey of women (and men!) and beauty culture...
The Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
DNA-based prediction of Nietzsche’s voice
download PDF | full study Abstract This paper presents a protocol for the accurate prediction of an individual’s voice based on genotype data, specifically from single nucleotide...
Classics
...bourgeois society is war. Those who want to approach the knowledge held in the academy must also internalize its mechanisms. Some go on to help it reproduce itself, as teachers....
Stuck on the Chaise Lounge: The Female Subject in Psychiatry from Pathology to Prozac
...Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) Julie Holland. “Medicating Women’s Feelings” The New York Times (28 Feb. 2015) Sophie Putka is a freelance writer...
Bloodless Lies
...a most conspicuous way. On the eve on the announcement of the non-indictment of Officer Darren Wilson, the killer of Mike Brown, Attorney General Eric Holder solemnly intoned that “history...
Plants, Domesticity, and the Female Poisoner
...Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?: How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Nagy, Victoria. “Narratives in the Courtroom: Female Poisoners in Mid-Nineteenth Century England.” European...
All Housing Doesn’t Matter
An interview with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy
Seeing it Hole
...the provocative and pressing questions that underlie Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle’s Cartographies of the Absolute, which examines Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle Cartographies of the Absolute Zero Books, 2015...
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there