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...Tough going, but it seems of interest that this inward turn proves so pervasive, even inevitable, in every form of online expression. If the furious e-mail is the product of being concealed from other tangible humans, being nevertheless laid bare to them may induce this pathological self-consciousness. Consider Internet journals, a total inversion the dynamic of the private diary. The same goes for (another contributor) YellowBanana’s penchant for sprinkling the novel’s text with the word ‘banana’ (either vandalizing or improving...
...more like the Web.The future may look like this: the so-called “democratic,” user-generated and user-popularized content of the web merging more and more with the practices of the world at large. After all, the Internet facilitates capitalism in its most bare and brutal form. The audience has the final say on whether a meme gets picked up or not, and no one has figured out a formula for being big on the Web. For the most part, Web comics and blogs do not undergo extensive editing or censorship. Instead, they undergo...
...students, apparently, do not. Joseph Pollack reported students’ tepid responses in ArchitectureWeek: “I know I’m not an architecture student,” said one, “but it seems like [Simmons] is really bare and feels like a hotel, not a home.” In this case, even when they may know better, the experts must let the laypeople win. At Harvard, the College did an outstanding job at renovating Hilles Library into a student center that’s a model of beautiful design. But they misjudged the puerility...
Some students even resort to covering up other events. John Harvard wearing a whipped-cream bikini hangs dangerously close to a poster about Mormons. A bare-legged Eleganza model glares at MCAT test review prices...
Where is the threshold of embarrassment about smells, sexuality, and defecation? This fall, history professor Walter L. Johnson will seek to answer this question in his new course, “Bodily Functions: The History of Bare Life and Biopower.” Johnson said that those who enroll in his seminar will work through various approaches, including Marxism, cultural anthropology, post-modernism, and feminism to study different topics on the history of the body, “The idea is to think in a suggestive rather than exhaustive manner about the way that historians and social theorists have thought...