Identity
To be human, in some fundamental way, is to attempt to know ourselves—and to come to know ourselves among others. Be it our parents, our communities, our enemies, or the very operations of our bodies, our ever shifting notions of who we are and where we belong are subject to a barrage of competing, conflicting, and reinforcing symbols and symptoms. Gender, race, class, nationality, biology, belief—that is, identity—limn a body that cannot be or belong apart from its being enmeshed in a world—self-same or social—that witnesses, ignores, bruises, consumes, steals, embraces, or denies who we are.
Charles Manson, Timothy Leary, & the Animals of NIMH
A Different Type of Church
Ryan Cardoso
I want to be soft…Can I be a petal?…I’m tired of being a demon
The Television Will Not Be Terrorised
Paul Lemaire and Vincent Burger
A new take on the French Revolution, via campy star-studded 80s cable TV
Elysia marginata
Allyson Packer and Jesse Fisher
Close your tabs. This is the Sleep-In Movement.
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Eva & Franco Mattes
Sahar Tabar's image may be undeclared parody, but it's also the story of competing powers and unlikely alliances.
Couture Critiques
Mandy Harris Williams
Are you ready for these looks and these reads? From artist, essayist, and community working pop star, Mandy Harris Williams comes a brand new series — Couture Critiques.
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Degrees of Disgust
Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen
What are the ethics of getting a ton of milk to make nasty cheese in the age of global warming?
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Le Suicide
Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen
Siri, how do you make chicken?
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Paul B. Preciado
DIS
McKenzie Wark summons Paul B. Preciado and explains Pharma-Porno Capitalism.
Eulogy for a Black Mass
Aria Dean
Exploring the black creative labor put into memes and the evolving theory of the poor image.
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Southern Gothic
Derek G. Larson
Imagine William Faulkner had access to lysergic acid diethylamide and lived in an abandoned mall.
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Sianne Ngai
DIS
McKenzie Wark summons Sianne Ngai and considers a new set of aesthetic terms.
Shakedown Directors Commentary
Leilah Weinraub
Witness Shakedown alongside Leilah Weinraub.
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Queer Architecture with Andres Jaque
DIS
What is queer architecture? Well, what is architecture? Andrés Jaque explores.
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Zahira Kelly and The Politics of the Internet
Hannah Black
Discussing the supercharged and interconnected political landscapes of Twitter and Tumblr.
Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock
Brontez Purnell
Brontez Purnell reconstructs the life and movement of the late visionary choreographer Ed Mock.
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I Don't Know Her
Emily Allan & Leah Hennessey
Susan Sontag in 1992 told Entertainment Weekly that she had never heard of Camille Paglia.
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A New Face in Hell
Emily Allan & Leah Hennessey
Cultural theorist Mark Fisher (RIP) vs. Mark E. Smith (RIP) from The Fall.
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Unholy Matrimony
Emily Allan & Leah Hennessy
Based on a true story, Allen Ginsberg & Andrea Dworkin face-off as godparents in unholy matrimony.
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Martha Rosler Reads Vogue
The Venus Monologues
DIS
The 30,000-year-old mainstay of art history 101 courses speaks.
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Casey and her Mom
Casey Jane Ellison
Casey and her mom go head to head in episode one of MAD.
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We Need To Invent A Different Kind Of Love: Michael Hardt
Derek G. Larson
Can we invent a new kind of love? What do objects experience? How much connection is too much?
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Dust
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
Boundaries have always been porous, mistaking them as anything but may just be our undoing.
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Jayne and Her Mom
Casey Jane Ellison
Casey prompts a mother and a daughter to discuss their relationship and help her save the world.
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Casey and Her Unborn Daughter
Casey Jane Ellison
You’ve never seen mothers and daughters like this.
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Everyone is a Worker
Simon Dybbroe Møller
Do you have to wear a uniform? Or are you free to wear what you want?
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Ylang Ylang
Women's History Museum and Daffy Scanlan
Fashion label Women's History Museum is here to (re)teach us how to dress.
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Tyler
Women's History Museum & Daffy Scanlan
Fashion label Women’s History Museum is here to (re)teach us how to dress.
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From Courbet to the Kardashians with Jacolby Satterwhite
DIS
From Courbet to the Kardashians with Jacolby Satterwhite
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Feminism with Christen Clifford
DIS
Christen Clifford tackles the expansive and intersectional nature of gendered oppression.
Assidule
Julien Creuzet
Assidule is a poetic consideration of racialized corporeality by Julien Creuzet.