Plinth

Magazine

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  I Curate, Therefore I Am: narcissism as curation in the digital age

  “Filter your friends” [...] “you are what you Tweet and Eat”.

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  Queer Eye and Tears

  "When five strangers tapered Tom’s moth-eaten ZZ Top beard, bought him a memory foam mattress, and convinced him to stop wearing jorts, I cried."

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  Trump L'Oeil

  "Donald Trump is a big baby. Donald Trump has tiny hands, and he’s full of hot air."

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  The Pantomime of Love Island

  "We dance/ And drink/ And screw/ Because there’s nothing else to do-oo-oo.” Hear hear.

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  Trump's Trailer

  "It’s easy to make fun of A Story Of Opportunity. It’s hilarious." 

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  ‘I will show you fear in a handful of dust.’

  Xenos at Sadler's Wells: Akram Khan's last solo performance.

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  Triple Reading Childish Gambino's 'This Is America.'

  'This a celly/ That's a tool.'

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  Netflix and Transgressive Women

  "It seems women receive the double-edged sword of patriarchy: the trauma on the one hand, and no symbolic index for digesting it in public, on the other."  

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  Curating Compassion (and how The Square’s ape-man might save the world)

  "Isn’t there something a bit superficial about it all?"

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  Black Mirror and the Black Mirror

  "These are fables, of a sort."

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  On Love and Genius

  Examining Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread'

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  Grasping the ungraspable: 'Living With Gods' at the British Museum

  Where does religion end and art begin?