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“Who Is You?”: The Posthumanism of <em>Moonlight</em>

“Who Is You?”: The Posthumanism of Moonlight

Precarious conditions, the embodied self, and the rejection of the liberal humanist tradition

<em>AHS: My Roanoke Nightmare</em> and our Incoherent Understanding of Trump Voters

AHS: My Roanoke Nightmare and our Incoherent Understanding of Trump Voters

The horrors of the American margins, both geographic and political

A Culture of Greed: 2008 in <i>The Bling Ring</i> and <i>The Big Short</i>

A Culture of Greed: 2008 in The Bling Ring and The Big Short

Hybrid genre in pop culture illustrations of Wall Street and Hollywood

A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Reflection on Adultism

A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Reflection on Adultism

ASOUE, in gaslighting the Baudelaire children, shows oppression in three sociological models of childhood: Apollonian, Dionysian, and Athenian.

An Unofficial Brief on Toxic Nationalist Metaphors and Ice Cream Cones in the Sun
Anxiety in Real Time

Anxiety in Real Time

hysterical advertising

Britney Spears: American Transcendentalist

Britney Spears: American Transcendentalist

light, love, flying, truth, faith

Cooking with Class: A Little French

Cooking with Class: A Little French

The spectacle of transparency and authenticity in food, plus how to chop celeriac.

Cooking with Class: Food as Ornament
Cooking with Class: Relational Recipes

Cooking with Class: Relational Recipes

a prescriptive cookbook and a descriptive experience

Cowboys and Aliens 'takes the high ground'

Cowboys and Aliens 'takes the high ground'

helpless, wailing love interests

Crafty Gals: What would St. Galentine do?

Crafty Gals: What would St. Galentine do?

There are lots of way to "girl."

Critical Feelings: A Primer on Emotional Culture

Critical Feelings: A Primer on Emotional Culture

critical thought and feely feelings are actually natural best friends

Dame Ethel Smyth: Feminine/Feminist Composer

Dame Ethel Smyth: Feminine/Feminist Composer

On the "feminine" compositions of early opera and their recent feminist resurgence

Dear God—or Hannah Arendt—Please Make This Documenta Acid Trip Stop!
Denial of Death?

Denial of Death?

A history of the moral discourse on "the good death."

DIS/CREDITED

DIS/CREDITED

the erasure of women's creative work

Don't Look: Look Closely: Abortion and Anti-Choice Aesthetics (Part 1)
Don't Look: Look Closely: Abortion and Anti-Choice Aesthetics (Part 2)

Don't Look: Look Closely: Abortion and Anti-Choice Aesthetics (Part 2)

The images are of individual entities, but they are about family.

Dunham the Dilettante

Dunham the Dilettante

authorship and the Jane-of-all-trades work ethic

Dystopias are for Girls: Lidia Yuknavitch’s <i>The Book of Joan</i>

Dystopias are for Girls: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan

The body as narrative, without boundaries

Emotional Culture and 9/11

Emotional Culture and 9/11

emotional culture is everything we do, because we live in the cultural products that reflect, articulate, and respond to us

Finding Ferguson in Visual Culture

Finding Ferguson in Visual Culture

lynching photographs and Michael Brown

Getting Down: Thanksgiving in the Little Space
Grief and Undoing

Grief and Undoing

We are all going to die.

Hans In Luck

Hans In Luck

My friends I stand before you today as a horse falsely accused and fiercely wronged

Huang's Web

Huang's Web

caught up in whiteness

Instagram and Protest: Cake in the Imaginary Economy

Instagram and Protest: Cake in the Imaginary Economy

Baking for a political Instagram archive raises the question: can protest, like cake, be generous?

It's in the Cloud: Miasma, Healthcare.gov, and Computing

It's in the Cloud: Miasma, Healthcare.gov, and Computing

The history of health in clouds, from miasmas to digital healthcare and "cloud campuses"

Menacing the Mediation

Menacing the Mediation

We notice there is a picture most when it breaks.

Minnesota Fine: Hell in a Handbasket

Minnesota Fine: Hell in a Handbasket

I curate children's parties

On the Traumatic Messaging of Racist Fear

On the Traumatic Messaging of Racist Fear

trauma, post-memory, and the origins of racist fear

Minnesota Fine: Travails of an Art Admin

Minnesota Fine: Travails of an Art Admin

just another cog in the Grain Belt machine

PINTIMIDATION: which Madeleine Albright pin should you wear to your salary negotiation?

PINTIMIDATION: which Madeleine Albright pin should you wear to your salary negotiation?

Take this quiz to determine which of Secretary Albright's statement pieces is right for you next salary negotiation.

Rethinking the Creative Class: Toward Creative Resistance

Rethinking the Creative Class: Toward Creative Resistance

urban space and the role of the state

Response to 'Critical Feelings'

Response to 'Critical Feelings'

9/11 is in no way a turning point

Rites and Wrongs: Burial After Violence
Sandwich Board Artist

Sandwich Board Artist

A veritable parade of sandwich boards

Shriek When the Pain Hits: Form, Feeling, and Violence in the <i>Inflammatory Essays</i>

Shriek When the Pain Hits: Form, Feeling, and Violence in the Inflammatory Essays

Consuming Holzer's text as image in the gallery and on Pinterest

Sign of the Times: 1 Year of Trump

Sign of the Times: 1 Year of Trump

Take this quiz to figure out what type of protest sign you should make for President Trump's one year paper anniversary!

Soviet Salon: Dinner on the Centenary of the Russian Revolution

Soviet Salon: Dinner on the Centenary of the Russian Revolution

A salon dinner about art and food in the Russian Revolution of 1917

Success Sans Tragedy: the Story of Katy Perry

Success Sans Tragedy: the Story of Katy Perry

Tragedy, authenticity, and quality in Katy Perry's Part of Me and their relation to dominant narratives of the artist.

The Grotesque: Mischief and Wonder in Renaissance Art

The Grotesque: Mischief and Wonder in Renaissance Art

the misshapen, the disproportionate, the fantastic and the delirious

The Internet is Trying to Make You Cry

The Internet is Trying to Make You Cry

cloyingly sweet internet detritus

The Other Dilettante Army

The Other Dilettante Army

porn and the Other

The Primal Urge to POST

The Primal Urge to POST

social currency and trauma

The Visual World of <i>Girls</i>

The Visual World of Girls

the form and style behind Girls's intimate narratives

There's Something About the Intro to <i>Orange Is the New Black</i>

There's Something About the Intro to Orange Is the New Black

The formal qualities of the images used in Orange is the New Black's title sequence are thematically relevant and evocative.

Underthinking Racism

Underthinking Racism

Getting angry is not a failure

To Bake a Hummingbird Cake: Female Food Blogging and Whiteness
Unruly: Hair, Politics and Memorial

Unruly: Hair, Politics and Memorial

remembrance and the body in Victorian hair wreaths

Visions of Eden: The State of Nature as Idyll

Visions of Eden: The State of Nature as Idyll

The language of environmental harmony is often used in Indigenous rights advocacy, but does it perpetuate the myth of the "noble savage"?

Whose Healing is It, Anyway?

Whose Healing is It, Anyway?

the impact of #saytheirnames

Zombie Flaneur

Zombie Flaneur

He was cultured. He had taste. He had time.

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