#Aesthetics

"" this tweet and I will write something about you. I have a hard time focusing on reading blogs (dyslexia, yay!), but I really like yours and your sense of
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I'm sorry if I'm woman-splaining. But sometimes, the problem is you men seek companionship/exclusivity/permanency from women who don't want the same thing as you. Or they want it but not
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Been reflecting a lot on Black Anglo-Catholicism recently...*A Thread* Ever since reading the history of the Church deliberately looking for a distinctive Africanity within it, I've been challenged particularly this
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Numerous US Catholics, in what may flow from genuine reverence, hew to a pathological aesthetic of authorityโ€”of power. One would be hard-pressed to construct a comprehensive account of Catholic support
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Mainstreaming of aesthetics is an act of subculture appropriation and erasure that results in the dismantling of a subculture from within. On the surface this might seem benign, yet most
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In recent years Trinidad Carnival has been narrowly defined by fetes and mas. Covid-19 has given us an opportunity to look at the national festival anew and find innovative, exciting
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Kink isn't good or bad based on whether the aesthetics appear "violent" to someone outside of a scene. Someone can be punched, slapped, kicked, choked, pierced, etc from a place
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Maybe two years ago, @mattklinman sat at my dinner table and reminded me of something: how much design impacted the proliferation of white supremacy. I mean literally web design. See,
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Fordism was not just a production method; it was a consumption method. Starting in 1916, Ford consciously set out to shape families and individuals to consume the increased goods brought
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Socialism in America has been so subversive and divorced from power for so long that it has almost completely fused with countercultural aesthetics and norms. This can be good, but
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Hot take:It is literally impossible to create meaningful cyberpunk anymore, no matter who writes it or what their intentions, because the *real world* is very very very literally now a
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it's a trip seeing this stuff as a Black guy who lives in Portland. The material conditions of Black people in democrat run cities (deteriorating infrastructure, unequal schooling)The violent over
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When @VincentMourik and I first obtained notebook-level data from the retracted Nature in 2019, we quickly matched all plots to the paper figures. Except the all-important figure 2 - it
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Happy 16th birthday Encore. I am one of the few that appreciate it as a whole. To me, it had all the potential to be, if not a classic, surely
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A long thread on why Kepa is the biggest issue at Chelsea right now, more than the defenders, manager or anyone else. His signing sums up everything that is wrong
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More episodes on historic preservation please! Great episode by @99piorg that covers the complicated relationship of urban development & heritage tourism, equity in housing, and the preservation of community identity
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