March 2012
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“This case is being hailed for its symbolism, but what is the message that it...”
– Danah Boyd, “Reflecting on Dharun Ravi’s conviction”
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Teju Cole on Kony and the White Savior Industrial...
“Seven thoughts on the banality of sentimentality”:
1- From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growth industry in the US is the White Savior Industrial Complex.
2- The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.
3- The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of...
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“This is a paper on moe, a neologism used to describe a euphoric response to...”
– Patrick W. Galbraith, “Moe: Exploring Virtual Potential in Post-Millennial Japan” Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (2009)
This is amazing. It references Deleuze and Guattari (always a good way to get on my good side) and also taps into another theoretical interest of...
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“I’ve never heard of Germans running NGOs in [the United States of] America to...”
– TMS Ruge, “A Peace of my mind: Respect my agency 2012!”
I haven’t spent a whole lot of time researching this recent Kony stuff (I was aware of who he is, and so I was puzzled that all of a sudden people were talking about him), partly because I resent when the internet...
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Five K-Pop Songs I Loved in February 2012
(from the music video for “Blue”)
Ailee - “Heaven”
I have this theory, as I’ve mentioned before, that K-pop is sort of like one long, extended musical. There’s the singing and dancing, of course, and the fashion. All of that is obvious. But K-pop also seems to accomplish so well what Richard Dyer wrote about musical sequences doing, which is conveying a...
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February 2012
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“It may be hard to recall, now that Streep has become our thespian in chief, that...”
– Charles McNulty, “My Meryl Streep problem”
Meryl Streep pretty much defines everything I find uninteresting about how the mainstream thinks about acting today, and this quote, I think, captures why. The whole idea of “revealing” and then “deflecting” emotion... 