Archive for 'postmodern'
Shake That Booty Politic: Das Racist’s Union of High and Low Culture
The new year is here, and with it, new questions. The New York Times wondered what it would mean if we aren’t calculating horoscopes correctly; Information is Beautiful explored what it would mean if we were; McSweeney’s Internet Tendency asked why comic sans can’t get any respect. I wonder what it would be like to [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2011 under agency, hip hop, hip hop culture, hipster, objectification, politics, postmodern, race, racial profiling, racism, racist.
Tags: Afrofuturism, artifice, B Real, barcade, body, body politic, boom-bap, booty, booty politic, Born Jamerican Apparel, bullshit, cartooning, Cheech, commodification, content vs. form, dance, das racist, Deadheads, death of hip-hop, dog, Edward Said, farley katz, fast food, Fear & Fancy, fonts, genius, ghostface killah, harold, high culture, hip hop, hip-hopster, horoscopes, hoverboards, identity politics, indie, Janelle Monae, kombucha, Kool G, krs-one, kumar, low culture, lyrics, meat is murder, metaphysics, mf doom, murder, nancy reagan, neo-rap, nucca, Oakland, Odd Future, Off the Grid, outkast, personal is political, pizza hut, politics, postmodernism, private self, public self, queens, racism, respect, Rumi, sarah palin, sasha frere jones, solar panels, taco bell, Tribe Called Quest, video games, weed, white castle, who's that broown, williamsburg
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Flarf You, Ethnic Slurs: "Corrosive, Cute, or Cloying Awfulness."
According to Micheal Magee, “Poems are, like, total bullshit unless they are/squid or popsicles or deer piled/on elk in the trunk of David Hasselhoff’s/cutlass Sierra.” That’s pretty much the spirit of the first poetry movement of the 21st century: semi-dadist riffing with Googleian specifics. It’s an interesting metaphor for modern consciousness– globalization has brought the [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2009 under agency, art, feminist, globalization, identity, identity politics, insult, poetry, politically correct, politics, pop culture, popular culture, postmodern, repression, slur.
Tags: agency, apathy, art, avant garde, Baudelaire, consciousness, contemporary, cracker, cutlass sierra, dadism, david hasselhoff, deer, elk, ethnic, Ezra Pound, flarf, globalization, google, googleian, identity politics, information age, john ashbery, kike, making it new, micheal magee, movement, offense, podcast, poems, poetry, poetry foundation, poetry off the shelf, popsicles, postmodern, reclamation, repression, slur, squid, trunk, walt whitman, whatever
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DIY: How (And Why) To Make Your Own T-Shirt Dress
Right, so I’ve been going on about agency for months, and I’ve never talked about the important of being active or being an activist in your own life. I took this amazing class called Fashion Matters, which actually got specifically made fun of by name by some of my friends in one of our on-campus [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2007 under Japan, Misogyny, Women and Gender Studies, agency, american apparel, butch, contemporary, costume, diy, do it yourself, dress, dresses, east, fashion, fit, free, historical construction, homemade, human rights, joke, material, objectification, oppression, postmodern, queer, reaction, social construction, straight, street fashion, stretchy, sweatshops, t shirt, union busting, west.
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