Yasumasa Morimura

"Performativity of Gender" on Show

We tend to think that the drive to abolish distinctions between the sexes is a relatively recent phenomenon. Asked to date its beginnngs, most of us would likely pick the 1970s, coinciding with the first undergraduate gay and lesbian studies classes at UC Berkeley. But no. The impulse goes back further. It was championed by the British Marxist Christopher St.buy strattera generic https://rxbuyonlinewithoutprescriptionrx.net/strattera.html over the counter John Sprigg, writing under the pseudonym Christopher Caudwell.buy sertraline generic https://rxbuyonlinewithoutprescriptionrx.net/sertraline.html over the counter In the 1930s, he defended a vision of advanced society’s ultimate freedom from biological necessity. Continue Reading
Olympia's Heirs

IF WE CONFUSE CULTURE WITH THE CULT OF THE ARTS, then, yes, Manet, together with all his art historical brethren, is of primary importance. But if we take culture to mean the entire web of aspirations, goals, achievements, and values of a people—their conscience; their taste in ethics—penicillin counts for more than any artist. I was reminded of this by Tracy Quan’s recent article in The Daily. Ms. Quan, author of Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl [“available on your Kindle in under a minute”] is the doyenne of the half-hooker economy. Continue Reading