Word: aestheticization
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Dilated Peoples 20/20 (Capitol) “Conscious” rappers can never have too many roof parties, nor do they ever tire of strolling down the block on a cloudy day. Just watch music videos by Black Star, Talib Kweli, or Nas—when he wanted his underground...
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Neko Case (Anti) Flame-haired alt-country chanteuse Neko Case is quite possibly the most versatile vocalist on the scene: she is an exhilarating power-pop balladeer, a smoldering lounge singer, a credible gospel soloist, and an expert interpreter of country-western standards. On her...
Empirical evidence suggests that more fashion companies are exploring their haute-femme side. Sass & Bide's new flagship store in Sydney utilizes a boudoir aesthetic to sell its sexy jeans and flirty dresses, as does Coco Ribbon in London, which stocks armoires, chaises longues and flamboyant mirrors alongside satin slippers...
Then, she moves on to how Whitman is able to fantasize a radically democratic future in which new forms of social and erotic relations, including male-male, will be possible, and to Ashbery’s discovery of a kindred aesthetic sensibility in a long-dead Renaissance painter.
The second thing: yes, it is weird that the original 1980s comic book, an updating of the Guy Fawkes tale ("Remember, remember, the 5th of November"), should so eerily foretell the 2001 bombing of another famous building (Remember, remember, the 11th of September). It's more audacious still that the...