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Last Laugh

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Where is the glamor of the female masculine in the culture of the young? And why is Eileen Myles the only living female writer with macho swagger successful enough for straight people know about?

Deep Dream Believer

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Despite what you’ve heard, Google’s Deep Dream is not an artificial intelligence – it’s just an interesting image filter. What does this misrepresentation tell us about the state of online tech journalism?

Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 3

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Day 3 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the limits of the human are discussed.

I’m Not You

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The multiplicity of binaries and hierarchies in Leon Neyfakh’s THE NEXT NEXT LEVEL testifies to a profound uneasiness regarding the center of power in America, cultural and otherwise.

Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 2

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Day 2 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the limits of the human are discussed.

Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 1

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Day 1 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the boundaries of the human are discussed.

Unreal Loyalties in the Museum

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Old-guard museum loyalists have come to associate photography of artworks with inattention and disrespect. But that attitude is itself unfaithful to the possibilities of the museum.

I don’t actually know where my faculties are

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Platforms like Facebook require consistency between one’s online and offline selves. But maybe there’s something unnatural about trying to force this consistency.

False Moves

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Unselfconsciousness is covetable. We admire it in babies and seek to recover it as adults. But blackness is incompatible with unselfconsciousness. Blackness is a tracking device.