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A superb essay by Laurie Penny on erotic capital, mechanized pornography, and the catastrophic...

A superb essay by Laurie Penny on erotic capital, mechanized pornography, and the catastrophic effects of contemporary sexuality on emotional health.

Forward: The Temporal Domain of the Body

Last week, the long-awaited Spring 2010 publication of Forward - a journal by the AIA Associates - was finished and is now available online as a PDF.

Hauling: video blogging about one’s shopping sprees. See...



Hauling: video blogging about one’s shopping sprees.

See also http://www.slate.com/id/2248295/



The Fall

For some time I’ve been intrigued by the lives of Gen X and Gen Y cast-offs from middle class society. Admittedly, this observation served as a mirror to my own life as a new single parent; my radar detected no fewer than ten persons - two degrees of Facebook separation or less - who also fit the bill.

Subjective Histories

@kazys Of course. The historian has already done the work so I presume it’s more efficient not to backtrack within the limited time of the class. Not advocating for the reverse chronology; just exercising a thought.

Julie's Narcissism

I watched Julie & Julia tonight. Not really expecting much, I was actually pleasantly surprised at how narcissistic Amy Adam’s character was. Completely self-absorbed with her need to become Julia Child - a fetishized persona to lose herself in - when she wasn’t ignoring her husband she was either treating him badly or calling him a saint for fixing her screw-ups. While his character was not developed to a great extent it certainly came through the film that she clearly had little sense of him as a person; therefore, she failed as a companion on equal footing with him.

The Curated Person

I wonder if a wave of eccentricities is going to define the future individual in the next decade or so. People will be evaluated on their differences: not solely as a quality of exclusion from a group but also as a marker of interest… a sort of benchmark in a survey of humanity, perhaps. As we see a search for and highlight of oddities and curiosities in the altered environment flourish, it follows that the “interesting person” would be the new feature on the horizon.

Suicide on Facebook

Tonight I found out that a distant friend of mine from college committed suicide a few days ago, only a couple of days after his fiancee had broken up with him. The entire sequence of events is chronicled as wall posts on his Facebook profile, from the change in relationship status from “Engaged” to “Single” to the in memorium posts from his friends following his death. In between there were a couple of posts from the man himself that ranged from “heart-broken” to “doing better” to “not-so-good, but ok”.