Month: March 2019
The Rebirth of the Dandy as Art Collector
The art industry is currently controlled and manipulated by the modern day “dandy” and their hunger for conspicuous consumption.
The Butcher’s Wife and the Caviar
a compromise between the conscious and unconscious brought about in a situation in which something desired is out of reach
The Cover
A series of recent fashion magazine covers reimagined to rectify the lack of representation of Asian American women
Shall I Project a World?
On the music of Isao Tomita, communicative entropy, and coming to terms with a diagnosis
Ding Ling’s Feminism
Through writing and political activism, Ding questioned the ways in which China's State and Party demanded that she flatten her ideologies and personhood to fit cleanly within a single, legible identity: the model socialist woman.
Reimagining Solitary Confinement
Not only does solitary confinement fail to achieve the stated goals of the practice, but many of the effects of isolating prisoners are counterproductive to addressing or preventing dangerous behavior.
In Search of Romance
“What is Love?” asks every romantic hero ever. “Love is when you really feel it, you know?” answers every romantic hero’s best friend or mentor who has some authority of love or just guesses based upon some romantic thing they read or have seen. “What is Love?” asks me, and quite possibly most people in their teens. “
Bishop’s Visionary Seascapes
"The Bight" and "The End of March" cast light upon an invisible line that connects Elizabeth Bishop's earlier work to her later work.
Ex Libris, Twitter
Twitter is the public’s preferred periodical of late. Yes, periodical—if Tom Wolfe championed a New Journalism of the ‘60s, then Twitter is our Newest Journalism.
Public Defense and Rebellious Lawyering
Can meaningful change be effected from inside the system? How can public defenders break free of becoming mindless cogs?