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Anders Zanichkowsky: Why I Oppose Marriage Equality
Anders Zanichkowsky: Why I Oppose Marriage Equality
I have two main problems with the marriage equality movement: 1. That its operation takes a tremendous amount of money, energy, and attention away from far more pressing issues. (Sometimes this is clear and direct, such as California spending $43 million on Prop 8 while $85 million was being cut from HIV/AIDS services. Sometimes this is more subtle, the successes of which can be measured when every single straight person I know uses their approval for same-sex marriage to demonstrate their allyship to me.) 2. That its strategies actively work against movements for queer economic justice, by removing capitalism, meaningful immigration reform, and gender/sexual deviance from the discussion entirely.
·azanichkowsky.wordpress.com·
Anders Zanichkowsky: Why I Oppose Marriage Equality
Sheezus Talks: A Critical Roundtable (SPIN)
Sheezus Talks: A Critical Roundtable (SPIN)
On the occasion of Kanye West's sixth album, released the day before Juneteenth, 2013, Anno Domini, we are gathered here due to the dearth of Yeezus pieces written by women, which is a significant oversight since a) much of this album, and West's catalog, is about us; and b) it's 2013, call the freaking doctor. So we've amassed an all-star panel that includes frequent SPIN contributors Puja Patel, Jessica Hopper, and Maura Johnston, Stereogum's Claire Lobenfeld, Toronto-based uber-freelancer Anupa Mistry, and SiriusXM's Sway in the Morning on-air personality and pop-culture writer Tracy Garraud.
·spin.com·
Sheezus Talks: A Critical Roundtable (SPIN)
Michael Barthel: Why "Disruption" is an Ugly and Dishonest Buzzword (Bullett)
Michael Barthel: Why "Disruption" is an Ugly and Dishonest Buzzword (Bullett)
The effect is to enforce a historical blindness that’s entirely too common when we’re thinking about tech. If what we’re seeing now is totally new, there are no historical analogies to apply, no worker protections or regulations from the past that we might want to preserve — it’s all new, after all! And, therefore, all good.
·bullettmedia.com·
Michael Barthel: Why "Disruption" is an Ugly and Dishonest Buzzword (Bullett)
Lily Benson: On Pickup Artists, Consent, and Why I’m Actually Mad
Lily Benson: On Pickup Artists, Consent, and Why I’m Actually Mad
On the Bustillos-Hoinsky interview in The Awl. Advice that encourages such a fundamental misunderstanding of and disregard for consent turns courtship and sex into a zero-sum game, where one partner gets what they want at the expense of the other’s comfort, bodily sovereignty and happiness. The outcry that led to Kickstarter’s change of policy was full of voices speaking from painful experience, saying that the world doesn’t need more advice like that, because it hurts people. In my view, it needs a lot more advice that teaches humans to truly listen to each other honestly and compassionately, including across genders.
·myloveinthug.tumblr.com·
Lily Benson: On Pickup Artists, Consent, and Why I’m Actually Mad
Brandon Soderberg: Is 'Yeezus' the Tipping Point for Rap Misogyny? (SPIN)
Brandon Soderberg: Is 'Yeezus' the Tipping Point for Rap Misogyny? (SPIN)
Rap music clearly has a serious misogyny problem. Admitting that won't lead to the elimination of the music altogether and it doesn't mean that all other social issues have to take a backseat. But once the problem has been acknowledged, let's don't just leave the self-evident truth sitting there. Actually continue to think about this stuff. Too often, rap's misogyny has been treated as a given. And that's just as dangerous.
·spin.com·
Brandon Soderberg: Is 'Yeezus' the Tipping Point for Rap Misogyny? (SPIN)
Drew Millard: I Saw Limp Bizkit Last Night and It Changed My Life (VICE)
Drew Millard: I Saw Limp Bizkit Last Night and It Changed My Life (VICE)
Where Durst was wearing black basketball shorts and a white Limp Bizkit hoodie, Borland was seriously dressed like a fucking orc, his entire body painted black with a giant black wig on his head and a light-up opera mask obscuring his face. He kept spitting water his water out instead of swallowing it, which seemed kinda weird but probably symbolized nothing.
·noisey.vice.com·
Drew Millard: I Saw Limp Bizkit Last Night and It Changed My Life (VICE)
Nitsuh Abebe: The Amanda Palmer Problem (Vulture)
Nitsuh Abebe: The Amanda Palmer Problem (Vulture)
Yes, she’s correct: The web offers an opportunity to fall into the open arms of fans, in ways that weren’t available before. Here’s the catch: The web also makes it near-impossible to fall into the arms of just one’s fans. Each time you dive into the crowd, some portion of the audience before you consists of observers with no interest in catching you. And you are still asking them to, because another thing the web has done is erode the ability to put something into the world that is directed only at interested parties. Its content isn’t like a newsletter mailed discreetly to private homes; it’s like a magazine on a newsstand, asking to be purchased. Telling the world all about your life can look generous to fans and like a barrage of narcissism to everyone else.
·vulture.com·
Nitsuh Abebe: The Amanda Palmer Problem (Vulture)
Anil Dash: Zuckerberg's FWD: Making Sure They Get It Right
Anil Dash: Zuckerberg's FWD: Making Sure They Get It Right
It's already clear that with FWD.us, the tech industry is going to have to reckon with exactly how real the realpolitik is going to get. If we're finally moving past our innocent, naive and idealistic lack of engagement with the actual dirty dealings of legislation, then let's try to figure out how to do it without losing our souls.
·dashes.com·
Anil Dash: Zuckerberg's FWD: Making Sure They Get It Right
Jon Caramanica: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety (NYTimes.com)
Jon Caramanica: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety (NYTimes.com)
these reactions are also a signal of how expendable hip-hop culture — and, by extension, black culture and youth culture — is to mainstream, predominantly white-owned corporations. These companies have been happy to associate with hip-hop while turning a blind eye to some of the genre’s rougher edges, but at the same time they have remained at arm’s length, all the better to dispose of hip-hop artists once their liabilities outweighed their assets.
·nytimes.com·
Jon Caramanica: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety (NYTimes.com)
Rob Horning: Google Alert for the Soul (The New Inquiry)
Rob Horning: Google Alert for the Soul (The New Inquiry)
“Becoming oneself” has turned into a crappy job — a compulsory low-paying, low-skill job. The promise of modernity, that we might escape the contingent circumstances of our birth and become who we “really are,” has become an injunction to continually work on the self with no hope of ever fully knowing ourselves or feeling fully recognized.
·thenewinquiry.com·
Rob Horning: Google Alert for the Soul (The New Inquiry)
Gerard Cosloy: The Year Complaining About Music Blogs & Beards Broke (Can't Stop the Bleeding)
Gerard Cosloy: The Year Complaining About Music Blogs & Beards Broke (Can't Stop the Bleeding)
Again, if you simply prefer the music of the early ’90′s, or more likely, that just happens to be the period in which you had a moment self of discovery (musical and otherwise) before real world circumstances beat it out of you, no problem. But blogs in general (or Pitchfork in particular) are a pretty convenient boogeyman compared to the public’s rotten taste and/or lazy music fans who’ve just fucking given up.
·cantstopthebleeding.com·
Gerard Cosloy: The Year Complaining About Music Blogs & Beards Broke (Can't Stop the Bleeding)
Alex McPherson: Jai Paul: A Scam to Feed the Internet Sausage Machine (The Quietus)
Alex McPherson: Jai Paul: A Scam to Feed the Internet Sausage Machine (The Quietus)
Paul is the perfect artist for a time when breathlessly reporting every step of a promotional campaign is prioritised over - or conflated with - actually assessing the art. Sure, most sites technically keep their news and reviews sections separate - but in the grand scheme of promo, this matters not a jot. The Paris Hiltonesque maxim that all that matters is that people are talking about you, not what they're actually saying, holds true across the board: in a crowded musical marketplace, repeated neutral mentions of an artist from a trusted source may not be an explicit recommendation, but they're more valuable than an averagely complimentary three-star review.
·thequietus.com·
Alex McPherson: Jai Paul: A Scam to Feed the Internet Sausage Machine (The Quietus)
Allen Pike: iOS 7: Catch me if you can
Allen Pike: iOS 7: Catch me if you can
By hanging up their rich textures in favour of rich effects, Apple has gone well beyond a coat of paint. If people fall in love with this new, beautifully living aesthetic, there will be an argument for building native apps for years yet.
·allenpike.com·
Allen Pike: iOS 7: Catch me if you can
Tyler Coates: ‘The New Yorker’s’ Bert and Ernie DOMA Cover Is Infantilizing and Offensive (Flavorwire)
Tyler Coates: ‘The New Yorker’s’ Bert and Ernie DOMA Cover Is Infantilizing and Offensive (Flavorwire)
You know what kind of image would have been nice to see on The New Yorker cover? Perhaps one of actual gay and lesbian couples. Were the magazine’s designers struggling to find one that anyone might recognize? How about Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, whose relationship was at the center of the case that determined DOMA was unconstitutional in the first place?
·flavorwire.com·
Tyler Coates: ‘The New Yorker’s’ Bert and Ernie DOMA Cover Is Infantilizing and Offensive (Flavorwire)
Russell Davies: No Brand Good
Russell Davies: No Brand Good
For some reason, as soon as you describe something as a brand all this fake science marketing mysticism gets invoked and paralysing decisions get made.
·russelldavies.typepad.com·
Russell Davies: No Brand Good
Kat Stoeffel: It’s Okay to Hate the Kickstarter ‘Rape Manual’ (NY Mag)
Kat Stoeffel: It’s Okay to Hate the Kickstarter ‘Rape Manual’ (NY Mag)
Bustillos hopes that a nonjudgmental dialogue with Hoinsky will help us discover an ethical form of seduction. I doubt it. If a woman must be seduced, either (a) the desire is not mutual and she is in fact being coerced (he is waiting until she is weary enough, drunk enough, or feels guilty enough for leading him on), or (b) the desire is mutual but she can’t express it, for any number of sexist social reasons.
·nymag.com·
Kat Stoeffel: It’s Okay to Hate the Kickstarter ‘Rape Manual’ (NY Mag)
Luke Winkle: We Should Be More Cynical About Albums Claiming to Change the World (Village Voice)
Luke Winkle: We Should Be More Cynical About Albums Claiming to Change the World (Village Voice)
The entirety of our conversation has been extracted from what essentially was Shaking the Habitual's PR campaign. The Knife talked about how thoroughly political the new album was, and a bunch of smart people patiently waited to see how those ideas were manifested. This is understandable, because The Knife seem like earnest people with important and indisputably unique perspectives. But it seems we've let Karin and Olof's rhetoric blend over into what we're hearing. There's nothing wrong with context, but we can't let the creative forces frame an album for our consumption.
·blogs.villagevoice.com·
Luke Winkle: We Should Be More Cynical About Albums Claiming to Change the World (Village Voice)
Eric Harvey: Afterword: Storm Thorgerson (Pitchfork)
Eric Harvey: Afterword: Storm Thorgerson (Pitchfork)
Along with Pink Floyd, Thorgerson and Hipgnosis were central figures in the transition from 60s psychedelia to the expansive, million-selling radio rock that defined most of the 70s. More than any single figure, he established intricately composed, surrealist photographic techniques, collages, and pictorial reappropriations as key ingredients of mainstream album art.
·pitchfork.com·
Eric Harvey: Afterword: Storm Thorgerson (Pitchfork)
Conor Friedersdorf: All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama (The Atlantic)
Conor Friedersdorf: All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama (The Atlantic)
America has stepped back from the brink in the past when wars ended. But we've never had a "war" go on this long -- and there's no end in sight. It's time for the people to pressure their elected representatives, so that, through Congress, we can dismantle the infrastructure Bush and Obama have built. In less than four years, an unknown person will start presiding over the national-security state.
·theatlantic.com·
Conor Friedersdorf: All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama (The Atlantic)
Jacob Bacharach: Peeping Thomism
Jacob Bacharach: Peeping Thomism
At some point, employers will have to face up to the unavoidability of hiring people whose first Google image is a shirtless selfie. Demographics will demand it. They’ll have to get used to it just as surely as they’ll have to get used to nose rings and, god help us, neck tattoos. It’s a shame, though, that it’ll be compulsory and reluctant. We should no more have to censor our electronic conversations than whisper in a restaurant. I suspect that as my own generation and the one after it finally manage to boot the Boomers from their tenacious hold on the steering wheel of this civilization that they’ve piloted ineluctably and inexorably toward the shoals, all the while whining about the lazy passengers, we will better understand this, and be better, and more understanding. And I hope that the kids today will refuse to heed the warnings and insist on making a world in which what is actually unacceptable is to make one’s public life little more than series of polite and carefully maintained lies.
·jacobbacharach.wordpress.com·
Jacob Bacharach: Peeping Thomism