I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall
Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York. I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs.
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Ryan Gosling’s lack of substance makes him the go-to heartthrob for ideological indoctrination
Beckett’s “Fail better” is now experimental literature’s equivalent of the famous Che Guevara photo: a successful brand with no particular owner
In a post-digital world, the Named garment achieves something our social networks cannot. We may never meet the three-dimensional version of our complete online cohort. But Minnie has a name. Order her. She’ll arrive at your door. Touch her. Smell her. She’s real. She’s yours.
There is much to know about Penelope Mortimer. She was married to one man, but gave birth to two children from extramarital affairs with two other, separate men. While pregnant, she would leave her first husband for her second, John Mortimer. Their relationship was anything but sunny, and the details became excellent source material for her scathingly brilliant novels, of which The Pumpkin Eater stands out.
This is the story of how I came to be profoundly disillusioned with the modernist photographic tradition. Through careful study of their work, it came to my attention that Eugène Atget, André Kertész, Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, men whom I had once taken for heroes, were involved in the systematic corruption of the tradition they had helped found.
Editor’s note: The following is a piece from way back in the TNI archives, Malcolm Harris writing about Chuck Klosterman in 2001. When we saw the similarities between Klosterman’s take-down of tUnE-yArDs and Harris’s article – well, we’re not accusing anyone of anything, we leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and the perils of attention seeking
Police hold man on suspicion of stealing five tons of ice from a glacier in Patagonia to sell as designer ice cubes for cocktails. Jellyfish will not plague our oceans in the future as was previously thought, say researchers. Penis tattoo gives guy permanent erection. Watching Paint Dry Championship attracts international interest.
What’s going on in beauty this week, from head to toe and everything in between. From Head… The extravaganza: Seems that we’ve always liked to mock vanity, and there’s none better than Sissydude’s hilarious collection of antique images satirizing elaborate hairstyles of yore. (via Final Fashion) Celebrate good times?: Mark Black History Month—with a sale
In 1893, Mary Kingsley found herself with six months to kill, so she went to Africa. But the thing about being a Victorian lady is that you can go to the Gold Coast, but you can’t get away from the mansplaining…
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