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my favorite form of entertainment is downloading PDFs ✦ plus favorite Fluxus artists and early programs
A woman who just wanted to buy a bra and ended up becoming an expert on Edwardian corsetry (and, by extension, early 20th century sartorial techniques, the labor struggles of the English garment industry, and all kinds of vaguely related topics) Mieko Shiomi’s event poems as programs ✦✧ The Fluxus artists Nam June Paik and Alison Knowles ✦✧ Meghan O’Gieblyn on statistically startling coincidences ✦✧ Lauren Berlant on “women’s culture” and narratives of identity In the episode, Jackson mentions a Lauren Berlant book I hadn’t heard of before, The Female Complaint, which analyzes how pop culture has created an “intimate public” of women based on the assumption of a shared, universal experience of womanhood.
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