NYMAG.com, Lacan, Mad Men…

Good job, Culture Vulture.
I’d say your Lacanian analysis of the newest episode of Mad Men was pretty strong. You did miss out on an interesting aberration in the psychoanalytic schema, that being Bettie Draper. 
This woman has no mirror, no ‘Ideal-I’, as Lacan puts it in his impossibly dense treatise on “The Mirror Stage”. She represents [...]

Cultural Shame Secret

I used to want Obama to win  (while it still mattered in the primaries, but then I voted for HRC)
I HATE Sex and The City
I will come up with better ones soon.

Chick-lit hall of shame

I just picked up this great game from New York Mag’s Vulture blog- they’re calling it what’s your cultural secret shame?, and this post totally needs to turn into the chick-lit version of it. 
Here’s how it works:
You pick a category-for example, books-, then each player has to admit which book they’re embarassed to never have read [...]

Response to NY Mag Post-Fem Article

“The past few months have been like an extended consciousness-raising session” – Amanda Fortini
This quote from this week’s New York Magazine’s article titled “The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the fourth wave” iterated a feeling that I have been having since my friends burst into my room and asked me to do this chick lit [...]