In This Issue
![“Who Is You?”: The Posthumanism of <em>Moonlight</em>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MoonlightPublicityStill000-1024x426.jpg)
“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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Croatoan.jpg)
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>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Bling-Ring-Collage.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Lemony-Snicket.png)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Minick-2.jpg)
An Unofficial Brief on Toxic Nationalist Metaphors and Ice Cream Cones in the Sun
street murals and unidentified brown bodies
![Anxiety in Real Time](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bella-shopaholic.jpg)
![Britney Spears: American Transcendentalist](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/britney-spears-channels-spirit-gangster-for-shopping-trip-14-794x1024.jpg)
![Cooking with Class: A Little French](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/french-lentils.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ashley-and-Gabe.png)
![Cooking with Class: Relational Recipes](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/table-setting-2.jpg)
![Cowboys and Aliens 'takes the high ground'](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shot0002-1024x427.png)
![Crafty Gals: What would St. Galentine do?](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Leslie_Knope_G-Day-1024x683.jpg)
![Critical Feelings: A Primer on Emotional Culture](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/kim-kardashian-crying-face-5-zap2it.jpg)
Critical Feelings: A Primer on Emotional Culture
critical thought and feely feelings are actually natural best friends
![Dame Ethel Smyth: Feminine/Feminist Composer](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Sargent-sketch.png)
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!](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Unsere-Villa-1024x768.jpg)
Dear God—or Hannah Arendt—Please Make This Documenta Acid Trip Stop!
Failing at Documenta 14, Kassel
![Denial of Death?](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/chopin-detail.png)
![DIS/CREDITED](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Duchamp_Fountaine-968x1024.jpg)
![Don't Look: Look Closely: Abortion and Anti-Choice Aesthetics (Part 1)](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/0.jpg)
Don't Look: Look Closely: Abortion and Anti-Choice Aesthetics (Part 1)
intimidated into turning away
![Don't Look: Look Closely: Abortion and Anti-Choice Aesthetics (Part 2)](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/download-1.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Dunham.jpg)
![Dystopias are for Girls: Lidia Yuknavitch’s <i>The Book of Joan</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Joan-of-arc-soundtrack-1024x772.jpg)
Dystopias are for Girls: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan
The body as narrative, without boundaries
![Emotional Culture and 9/11](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/la-911-memorial-33-lrdnbjnc.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/michael_brown_pixellated.jpg)
![Getting Down: Thanksgiving in the Little Space](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Turkey-1.png)
![Grief and Undoing](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image-1-1024x768.jpeg)
![Hans In Luck](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/mr-ed.jpg)
Hans In Luck
My friends I stand before you today as a horse falsely accused and fiercely wronged
![Huang's Web](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Huang-Grill.png)
![Instagram and Protest: Cake in the Imaginary Economy](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SupremeCourtCake.png)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Cholera_art.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Postface-1024x640.png)
![Minnesota Fine: Hell in a Handbasket](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Screen-Shot-2013-10-27-at-1-1.56.42-PM.png)
![On the Traumatic Messaging of Racist Fear](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/white-silence-violence.jpg)
![Minnesota Fine: Travails of an Art Admin](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IMG_8076-1024x808.jpg)
![PINTIMIDATION: which Madeleine Albright pin should you wear to your salary negotiation?](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Albright_Makeup-1024x964.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/10909371436_4213b27bfb_k.jpg)
Rethinking the Creative Class: Toward Creative Resistance
urban space and the role of the state
![Response to 'Critical Feelings'](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/grammys-morissette.jpg)
![Rites and Wrongs: Burial After Violence](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f906532779319006f5086f66e6ed4f25.jpg)
![Sandwich Board Artist](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/sandwich_board_artist.gif)
![Shriek When the Pain Hits: Form, Feeling, and Violence in the <i>Inflammatory Essays</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Holzer-Gallery.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Womens_March_on_Washington_32593123745-1024x683.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DA-Soviet-Pattern-Single-copy-1024x775.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Katy-Perry-Plastered-Smile.jpg)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-colossus-of-Appennino-at-Pratolino-Florence-Italy-.png)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-23-at-12.23.10-PM-1024x656.png)
![The Other Dilettante Army](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/google.DA_-1024x556.jpg)
![The Primal Urge to POST](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Killings_By_Police_Brow_t670.jpg)
![The Visual World of <i>Girls</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hannah-Faints-1024x640.jpg)
![There's Something About the Intro to <i>Orange Is the New Black</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-14-at-8.07.05-PM-1024x562.png)
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](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/allenva-124x-large-1.jpg)
![To Bake a Hummingbird Cake: Female Food Blogging and Whiteness](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Hummingbird-Cake-Recipe-799x1024.jpg)
To Bake a Hummingbird Cake: Female Food Blogging and Whiteness
female food blogging and whiteness
![Unruly: Hair, Politics and Memorial](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hair-Wreath-Rockford--1024x683.jpg)
![Visions of Eden: The State of Nature as Idyll](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Bosch.png)
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?](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BlackLivesMatter1-948x1024.jpg)
![Zombie Flaneur](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/flaneur_zombie.jpg)
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