Shinjini Dey defines the trans-historical aesthetic category of Darjeeling, a place where tourists use cell phone videos and buying power to preserve the colonial imaginary and where local workers constantly, anxiously, recreate that imaginary anew.

A letter from the editors

Are Crocs ✨aesthetic✨? Tom Martin writes the phenomenology of Crocs—how we see them on other people, and how the world is revealed to us by wearing them.