Rural aesthetics are in, from cowboy boots to country albums by pop stars to pastoral idealism peddled by influencers. The ...
What connects these trends is not a detailed engagement with policy or ideology, but a desire to make the past feel emotionally and visually appealing. In each case, history is filtered through ...
If eyes are the window to the soul, then eyeliner could be seen as amplifying the soul's purpose. It was around this time that Zahra Hankir – author or "Eyeliner: A Cultural History" – also deepened ...
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MAGA’s rural aesthetic goes mainstream
In an episode of The New York Times podcast “The Opinions," opinion editor Meher Ahmad, columnist and sociologist Tressie ...
One chilly September morning in 2022, a Kim Kardashian post appeared on my feed. Against the sweeping American flag, she sported a denim-on-denim outfit and shiny bleach blonde hair. Her makeup was ...
“Ocasio-Cortez’s uses of Instagram seem to be less about humanizing an individual politician than about politicizing humans; that is, bringing more humans, particularly young humans, into the fold and ...
The re-emergence of facial hair in mainstream culture has largely bypassed the political arena. From sports stars to Hollywood actors, beards have made a notable comeback, yet in politics, they remain ...
UC Davis East Asian Studies, Global Hong Kong Studies @ the University of California, and America-China Talk at UC Davis invite scholars and PhD students to submit original research papers for the ...
ABSTRACT This essay brokers an unlikely connection between Sianne Ngai’s “weak” aesthetic category of the cute and Carl Schmitt’s aesthetics of political theology through a reading of the soft, sticky ...
“Songs for Sabotage,” the New Museum’s 2018 Triennial, tethers fresh artists to stale palaver. The work of the twenty-six individuals and groups, mostly ranging in age from twenty-five to thirty-five, ...
"Nefertiti was really our original beauty influencer." It was around this time that Zahra Hankir – author or "Eyeliner: A Cultural History" – also deepened her own relationship with eyeliner. The ...
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