'Why the Descent Into Autocracy Is Already Happening — Faster Than Americans Think"

"Work injuries suffered on the factory line are rarely mentioned in academic accounts of trauma, whether from a literary or a historical point of view. In fact, industrial forms of working-class injury are largely ignored by the literature _...Read More_

"Banning literature that deals with African American studies is a form of censorship that denies people the right to access information, knowledge, and ideas that have shaped our society. It stifles the ability to examine the past, present, _...Read More_

>"Adam Zhu’s book “Nice Daze” depicts amorphous social configurations, fleeting experiments in style and thrill-seeking, and elevated forms of _...Read More_

The article discusses the aesthetics of dismemberment in Japanese robotics, which involves the excision and reconstitution of initially organic wholes into artificial and idealized functional parts. This aesthetic is related to the internal _...Read More_

A.I. Is Sucking the Entire Internet In. What If You Could Yank Some Back Out? Two musicians brokered a deal to save 80 million images from Stable Diffusion. Are they enablers or heroes? _...Read More_

>"Unlike the provocative grand gesture more common in late-20th-century art, Cornell’s work rewards, and almost commands, the stillness of solitary _...Read More_

"Straight men rarely write about the end of their marriages. Our enduring ideas about gender explain this silence"

"While the 90s and 00s had an abundance of tween-focused pop culture, it seems to be slowly going extinct – so what does that mean for young women today?"

"Tár, the recent classical music-based drama starring Cate Blanchett, has been an unexpected critical success: it has been nominated for six Oscars and, since its opening, has generated a steady stream of reviews and think pieces from _...Read More_

"A tank destroying Entrance Gate 3 of San Marcos University (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) on January 21 has become a powerful image of the recent outbreak of violence in Peru. A contingent of police officers entered the _...Read More_

"This is partly due to factors that are affecting all US workers, like out-of-control housing markets and lack of paid family leave or universal health care. But it is also the result of the growing corporatization of the university."

"Is TikTok’s new ‘deinfluencing’ trend genuinely an antidote to our culture of overconsumption, or is it just a symptom of our economically turbulent times?"

"Stripper Web trained new girls like me to harness the power of money against the men who wielded it. Any dancer could read hundreds of posts about which clubs were rife with managers extorting dancers for money and sex. Nowhere else could _...Read More_

"Architect and poet Paolo Belardi traces the many conditions and situations that have inspired extraordinary ideas across the arts and sciences."