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Fashion

The Philosophy of Ripped Jeans

An interview with Gwenda-lin Grewal about her new book on the intersection of philosophy and fashion

September 7, 2022 • by Jack Condie, Nicholas Dagher, Gwenda-lin Grewal, Noah Kupper and Quinn Mason

Fashion is always threatening to undermine autonomy but also always presenting you with the opportunity of taking it back. That is what’s lost when you say fashion is just for shallow people, it’s only about appearances, or that it doesn’t have anything to do with reality. I think quite the ...

Reviews

Burning Cities

The Natural History of Destruction examines the European bombing campaigns of WWII with provocative disregard for convention

July 27, 2022 • by Altair Brandon-Salmon

Part of the film’s thrill is its boldness in posing these ethical questions through sound and imagery. He makes them come alive through his fictionalizing interventions into the archival material, with the extensive foley work and the assemblage of disparate material. It is, dare I say it, entertaining. Destruction is ...

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The Bloody Autumn of Butcher’s Crossing

July 27, 2022 • by Naomi Oreskes

The following is an excerpt from an essay first appeared in Social Research: An International Quarterly. It is part of the journal’s summer 2022 issue, Books That Matter II. The most famous environmental book ever written in America is Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962. But just two years before, ...

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My Life in Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll

July 27, 2022 • by Wendy Doniger

My mother seemed to me, when I was a child, a combination of the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen. She was, like the Queen of Hearts, idiosyncratic and imperious, someone with whom you could never win an argument, even when you knew you were right and she was ...

Fashion

Fashion Sustainability Isn’t the Only Story—In Fact, It may Do More Harm Than Good

An interview with Fashion Historian Sofi Thanhauser

July 20, 2022 • by AJ Morris and Sofi Thanhauser

The system of clothing that we have now has been created by centuries of colonial violence, and decades of trade agreements between the United States Department of State and the Chinese Communist Party. It's not up to people trying to get a pair of socks to fix those things....

Fashion Sustainability Isn’t the Only Story—In Fact, It may Do More Harm Than Good

Social Research

Books That Matter II, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its last issue

July 20, 2022 • by Social Research

The current issue of Social Research is based not on a special theme but rather on the conviction that words matter, books and ideas matter—and some books, special ones, deeply affect our lives and how we think and what we think about. To bring home this perhaps trivial truism—that books ...

Books That Matter II, the New Issue of Social Research

Reviews

James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100

An exhibition at the Morgan Library

July 8, 2022 • by Mitchell Abidor

One hundred years ago, James Joyce’s Ulysses was first published in Paris. This year, the Morgan Library in New York is celebrating with a remarkable exhibition, “One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses,” on display until October 2. ...

Social Research

Hospitality, The New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

May 17, 2022 • by Social Research

The current issue of Social Research on hospitality, a subject that is intimately connected to that of xenophobia, was inspired by the compelling and fruitful suggestions of my friend and colleague, Polish philosopher Tomasz Kitlinski. It is a subject that lies at the heart of many of the problems besetting ...

Hospitality, The New Issue of Social Research

The Arts

How We Remember Leads Us to What We Remember

A review of the Noguchi Museum’s “No Monument” exhibit

May 10, 2022 • by Miko Yoshida

No Monument, contained within one and a half rooms on the first floor of the Noguchi Museum complex, challenges institutional accounts of Japanese Americans detention—often illustrated using photographs of disconsolate families surrounded by a few remaining possessions—by celebrating personal expression in a time of hardship. ...

How We Remember Leads Us to What We Remember

The Arts

The Invisible Labor of Asian Americans in New York Fashion

On the complexity of curating a fashion exhibit around identity

May 9, 2022 • by Shweta Nandakumar

To make plain the fact that there exists no singular Asian American aesthetic, the student organizers of this FIT exhibit made the unusual choice not to make reference to the specific heritages of the featured creatives: “We want viewers to focus on the craftsmanship that goes into the work the ...

The Invisible Labor of Asian Americans in New York Fashion

The Arts

The World’s First Revolutionary Artist

Was Jacques-Louis David an opportunist? Or a passionate propagandist?

April 18, 2022 • by Mitchell Abidor

Jacques-Louis David Radical Draftsman is a fitting exploration of the first great radical artist, a master of propaganda whose greatest triumphs were a result of his unflagging willingness to place his enormous talents at the service of his deepest political beliefs. ...

Art & Design

Souvenir

Adapted excerpt from Activities of Daily Living

April 13, 2022 • by Lisa Hsiao Chen

For her project about the Artist—at least that’s what she was calling it for now, a project—Alice read all that she could find about his yearlong performance works before he renounced making art altogether. There was the year he locked himself in a cage. The year he punched a time clock ...