The editors at The Baffler want me to talk about my job. They want me to humiliate myself in the pages of this magazine. Very well: I am a podcaster. What is a podcaster? It’s someone who makes money from talking, often by means of selling dick pills. I don’t do that part, but I still obscure what I…
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“I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway through White, and the reader desperately wishes this were true. Ellis is best known for American Psycho, the controversial 1991 cult novel about an image-obsessed Wall Street serial killer; the film adaption would…
One afternoon I was in the office of a psychoanalyst I know, scanning the alphabetical shelves for a book by Melanie Klein on envy and gratitude, when I glimpsed old copies of Janet Malcolm’s Psychoanalysis (1981) and In the Freud Archives (1984) and saw a chance to get some perspective. Malcolm is…
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THE PHRASE IDENTITY POLITICS is hard to approach directly because it is often put to use in contradictory ways. One is the really existing identity politics of, for example, the Hillary Clinton campaign. We are encouraged to vote for Clinton simply because she is a woman, as the writer Sydette Harry…
Exhibits In the photo insert of Bernard Lefkowitz’s 1997 book Our Guys, there’s a poor-quality close-up of a cute boy in a hoodie. It’s from the boy’s yearbook, where it was featured prominently. It was not originally a close-up — the yearbook editors cropped in on the cute face. I know this to be…
The Kid Mero (Joel Martinez), left, and Desus Nice (Daniel Baker) return to TV with a new late-night series on Showtime.Credit...Joel Barhamand for The New York Times One morning earlier this month, Desus Nice and the Kid Mero were in the Jam Room of Milk Studios in Chelsea, recording a new episode…
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On transcendence in two essays, a short story and four poems. Featuring illustrations by Franz Lang.
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The connotation of the new “micro,” as in, “How…
"Can you put Post Malone back on?" Amanda Bynes asks in a way that's both confidently decisive and exceedingly polite. She's modeling a pretty beaded and crystal-studded silver top that she designed herself, her long honey blonde hair parted to the side like a '90s cover girl, while posing serenely…
In “Jane Dickson in Times Square,” published this year by Anthology Editions, the artist’s rarely seen “peepshow paintings” come to life: dark canvases glow neon with the signage of porn theaters, cheap hotels, parking lots, liquor stores, and strip clubs. For the first time, her photographic…
The party known as Cocktails and Compliance—so called for mixing alcohol with tax advice—was thrown on a Friday evening in May, in a warehouse turned art gallery in Old San Juan. The host had kept his guest list confidential: It contained the names of hundreds of ultra-wealthy mainland Americans…
Bruno Latour at his home in Paris.Credit...Christopher Anderson/Magnum, for The New York Times He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today? Bruno Latour at his home in Paris.Credit...Christopher Anderson/Magnum,…
Sung by Aretha Franklin at a young age, Thomas A. Dorsey’s “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” was an existential cry, a justice prayer shed of pretense. Photograph from Metronome / Getty An inarticulate misery, and yet the desperate need to articulate it, is what brought the thunderous wonder of Thomas…
A Summer Chronicle by Natasha Stagg What they didn’t say in Sex and the City was that some of these men were sleeping with Carrie just to get mentioned in her column. This column isn’t about sex but it could be, and it’s about my friends, I guess, and so people have brought it up to me, as in: I…
Tessa Thompson as Detroit in Sorry to Bother You (Photo credit: Annapurna Pictures) There’s a phrase that comes to mind when I think of Tessa Thompson’s character Detroit in Boots Riley’s debut feature, Sorry to Bother You : symbolic disrupter. She wears the clothes of a revolutionary. Literally—her…
I remember learning about Frank Olson in a high school psychology class, in our unit on drugs. What I learned is that during the ’50s the CIA experimented with LSD in their offices until one of their own got so high he fell out a window, embarrassing the agency. Not yet having experimented with LSD…
D espite his wife’s earlier attempt, it was Kanye West who finally broke the internet. Throughout his ascendance, the rapper and designer had fashioned himself as a mouthpiece for the black community, but then, one morning in April, West tweeted support for Donald Trump, posting a photo of himself…
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RuPaul Charles has long had an influence on cultural climate and attitudes. Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times, via Getty Images I came to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” late: I didn’t get into the show until its fourth or fifth season. Back then, it was still airing on Logo, a small network that you had to have a…
O n a soundstage deep in the hills of Los Angeles one morning last August, RuPaul Charles and several drag queens made their way to a set that had been transformed into a simulacrum of the reality-TV show “The Bachelor.” Lacy strands of lights dripped down plastic boxwood hedges, and a row of white…
Tricky, “Brand New You're Retro” (1995) FOR MANY PEOPLE, 2016 was the year that a fantasy of progress contorted into exasperation: “I can’t believe it’s 2016 and people are still racist!” This feeling of belatedness is always beginning to give way to the evident fact that the passage of time alone,…
First Interview: Artforum’s New Editor-in-Chief David Velasco Talking Partygoing, Portland teenhood, and Loving/Hating the Art World with Sarah Nicole Prickett Photography: Marcelo Gomes On the day of his eighteenth birthday, October 23, 1996, David Velasco took up smoking. He had been bullied as a…
Facebook Email To Feature - 07 Jun 2017 Art sees itself as facing a crisis of legitimation – can this account for claims to 'authenticity' being made in shows such as documenta 14? A recurring characteristic of large-scale exhibitions in recent years has been the artwork’s status as a metaphor for…
Published 17/7/17 The ideas for this invited lecture were developed through conversations with Lesley Mclean . Transcribed here by Penny Jordan. I am slightly outside the two major streams of modern animal ethics. The two major streams of modern animal ethics, as you all know, are the animal…
A curious message appeared on Lana Del Rey’s Twitter near the end of February, the same week she debuted her single “ Love .” “At the stroke of midnight,” it announced, listing dates during each of the next four waning crescent moons. “Ingredients can b found online.” No further explanation; only a…
For most of us, the lives of the wealthy are inscrutable. Because the day-to-day reality is largely hidden, it’s hard not to imagine rich life as a montage of scenes from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Keeping Up with the Kardashians —crosscut with a bit of illuminati conspiracy theory. This…
You don’t have to keep a diary to reveal your innards in words. Curt snaps at service workers; whispering secrets in kids’ ears; name dropping in the company of cool strangers; or bringing up an old fight after receiving good news. How in love we say their names repeatedly. And call them “you.” Hey,…
BEGINNING THE SECOND PARAGRAPH of her 1973 essay on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set, published in the New York Review of Books , which she cofounded, Elizabeth Hardwick had a line on the lesser members of that mutual entourage: “Certain peripheral names vex the spirits.” When the essay…
NEVER MISS ANOTHER STORY The stories you care about, right at your fingertips. Get Truthout delivered to your inbox every day: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 By Zoé Samudzi , Medium | Op-Ed Counter-protest leaders shouted their gratitude to the black bloc in Berkeley, California, August 28, 2017.…
The white walls of Reforma 222 gleam over Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Insurgentes, two of the main thoroughfares of Mexico City. Its atria shelter some Mexican businesses like the ubiquitous, Carlos Slim-owned department store Sanborns, alongside places like Abercrombie and Zara. One entrance…
The strangest part about the continued personality cult of Robert E. Lee is how few of the qualities his admirers profess to see in him he actually possessed. Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War. That’s understandable; it was created to mourn the dead of a…
This afternoon, in announcing her support for removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asserted that killer Dylann Roof had “a sick and twisted view of the flag” which did not reflect “the people in our state who respect and in many ways revere it.”…
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Illustration by Andrew Rae During a February ride in San Francisco, Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, was recorded arguing with and eventually berating an Uber driver from the back seat of his car. The driver, who had been working with the company since 2011, accused Kalanick of…
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