Part of the main character trend pitfalls into an obsession with being different, and using one’s individualism — whether it’s in fashion and self expression, habits, or even taste — as cultural currency.
Arts & Entertainment
KUDVA DRISKELL | Do You Think Freely?
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Online, we treat ourselves as free actors despite corporate interests, which create hyper-personalized content that is in no way randomly disseminated.
Arts & Entertainment
PERATI | Ithaca Murals as Mirrors for Political Action
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Despite backlash, the murals have become an important part of the Ithaca culture: Their vibrant accents and bold colors personify our changing space to reflect the eclectic voices of our city’s diverse community.
Arts & Entertainment
YANG | Who Owns Whose Music in the Streaming Age?
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Our emotional connection with music can often be linked to our sense of control over cultural artifacts.
Arts & Entertainment
YANDAVA | One Minute Friends
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Well, I might have lost the ability to make these one-minute friends, but for the time being, I can at least find consolation in the fictional friends of one hour.
Arts & Entertainment
LU | Simone Leigh: Against the Artist-Individual
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The sculpture recalls the violent diasporic histories of enslaved Black women.
Arts & Entertainment
PONTIN | ‘The Twilight Zone:’ Yesterday and Today
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It is clear that we cannot so easily dismiss The Twilight Zone as a relic of an era marked by containment, proxy wars and missile crises.
Arts & Entertainment
KUDVA DRISKELL | We’re All Techo-Sheep Infected by Relatability
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I’m not necessarily making the argument that “relatable” content creators are trying to weasel their way into your capitalist rodent brain — but I’m not not making that argument.
Arts & Entertainment
PERATI | It’s Not Enough to Change the English Department Name
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We should be encouraging a push in requirements to deliberately include literature that interacts with race, racism, gender, sexuality and colonialism.
Amazon
YANG | Subtitles Are So Political
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In the case of Hulu, the lack of dubbing and subtitles for its non-English-speaking films is a blatant example of an illusional gesture of inclusion.
Arts & Entertainment
YANDAVA | Louise Glück’s Poetry of Resilience
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Returning to the books one used to read as a teenager often registers the same unpleasant surprise as finding old photographs of oneself: The words do not sparkle as much, the quotations hastily scribbled down in one’s diary are revealed to be too cliché, too overwrought and stultifying, just as one’s posture is worse, one’s smile decidedly more crooked than one remembers.