The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/arts/artscolumns/page/4/)
What has occurred to me is how surprisingly easy one can stay in the same building for a day, without feeling the need to leave. Perhaps that’s the shelter-in-place training materializing, but perhaps it also speaks to the sub-worlds that exist within Tjaden.
The paintings we examined, crafted by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, were acutely visually interesting. They captured my gaze and my breath, inviting my young brain into a space that was preposterously yet comfortingly unrecognizable.
Though populist politics are by no means a novel concept, populist movements and leaders have grown immensely since social networks took off in the late 90s.
The imaginaries of surveillance have entered our popular culture in pervasive ways.
Woolf knew that it was not we who wear the clothes, but the clothes that wear us. This is doubly true in the case of great clothes. When I read one of her novels, it is like putting on some fantastic new garment. I feel the fluidity and lightness of the words flow over me like silk, their rich histories and sound-associations weaving in and out of one another, embroidering and patterning the whole.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I regarded, piqued yet leery,
The fact that Westerns allow us to elude our own realities is at the heart of the genre’s remarkable longevity. While the specific factors from which we are looking to escape have evolved drastically from the 1950s to present day, the desire stands unwavering.
When I think of self care, I’ll admit that the first things that come to mind are Pinterest-approved Instagram graphics and Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness and lifestyle company. However, the history of self-care is far more expansive and revolutionary than this materialistic attitude would suggest.
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.
After the chaos and uncertainty of the election last week, watching The Queen’s Gambit has served as the perfect post-election escapism. “It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it. I can dominate it,” chess prodigy Beth says, in Scott Frank’s adaptation of Walter Tevis’ 1983 coming-of-age novel.