Every time we eat, we craft our identities, perform relationships, and shape our communities, from the local to the global.
Harry G. West | Dec 9, 2021
Elizabeth Claire on the culture of dancing madness in post-terror Paris.
Elizabeth Claire | Dec 6, 2021
Mired in power relations and inequalities, fanfiction has long produced the most nuanced and productive engagements with questions of consent.
Milena Popova | Nov 30, 2021
Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years.
E.R. Truitt | Nov 24, 2021
New explanations from economics research.
Stefanie Stantcheva | Nov 20, 2021
A short essay from philosopher, curator, and trans activist Paul B. Preciado's book, "An Apartment on Uranus."
Paul B. Preciado | Nov 15, 2021
The prostate-specific antigen test is one of the most lauded tests for prostate cancer. It’s also controversial and fraught with uncertainty.
Ericka Johnson | Nov 3, 2021
Sketches and texts from the conceptual artist’s earliest notebooks offer a rare look inside his art-making process.
Gabriel Orozco | Nov 1, 2021
“The spoken language is our most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool, and we must be as precise in its use as is a surgeon with a scalpel.”
Eric Cassell | Oct 28, 2021
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, author of “The Body Fantastic,” on the evolving perceptions of spit, from curative agent to expression of disdain.
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi | Oct 26, 2021
