Articles tagged: Sianne Ngai

Young-Girls in Wikiland

Anna and Ellen Ioanes document the changing meaning of the word “aesthetic” reflected in the evolution of Aesthetics Wiki’s moderators and users: a practice of identity-making in an era of neoliberalism. From this encyclopedia, we come to recognize a fully realized style when we see it: something that is just so aesthetic.

Making a Tourist Town

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.

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