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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....

Labour-Power, Punk Rock and Possibilities for Feminist Politics

April 20, 2015 • by Stephen Graf

With the rapid proliferation in the past few decades of subject-centered politics that frame oppression in terms of two, three, or more relatively autonomous yet interacting systems, what fruits could a theory bear which takes an entity other than the subject as the base on which to build a lens ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The search for authenticity in consumer culture

October 21, 2014 • by Jeremy Safran

Milan Kundera begins his novel Immortality with a description of a gesture made by a woman he is observing at a swimming pool. This woman, who we will come to know as Agnes in the story, smiles and waves at the lifeguard who has just been giving her ...