January 2011
19 posts
New Wave of Tamil Film →
Wish I was still in Brooklyn for this.
lovecraft asked: who is homi k? the words all sounds familiar.
Ann Ducille on "Ethnic" Barbies →
A nice blog post that draws from Skin Trade and features some great photos of “ethnic” Barbies.
Love and Marriage
Both are words I have trouble with but more importantly the and linking the two. I can get behind the first, but don’t necessarily think they need to be linked. That said, one of my sisters (cousins, ya know) in India recently stepped out and had a love marriage to a Christian man. We’re Hindu so this was some hubbub, especially as my family there is pretty devout. A month or so later,...
Against geek austerity: A slight retort to Patton... →
Sam Han writes an incisive piece calling for the end of the “hard work” of geek culture. I wholeheartedly agree, and really appreciate his bringing in of Marx, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Jameson. I hate cultural/taste elitism for a lot of the reasons he cites, but also because usually the popular i.e. “romance” is always figured as degraded and feminine. It’s 2011 (yes,...