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Illustration by Rebekka Dunlap.

Non-Compete Clause On navigating away from the demands of neoliberal patriarchy By Laurie Penny The Baffler

‘The real menace to our jobs, to our love life and family lives, to our security and identity, is not other women. It never has been, but neoliberal patriarchy reduces every human interaction to the level of savage competition—including sisterhood.’

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‘Female competition is the sharp edge of internalized sexism and the death of solidarity. Whether it’s sniping and undercutting one another at work or on social media, or that sudden cold shoulder when one of your friends starts to do well, even though you know that this is probably a moment when she needs your support, it’s an intimate poison that eats you from within.’

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‘If female competition is false consciousness, refusing to compete with other women is about the most personally revolutionary thing you can do with and for feminist liberation right now. Even if female rivalry were nothing more than a “natural” instinct, that’s no excuse to carry on torturing yourself with comparison and cutting other women down. You aren’t actually competing with that girl, whoever she happens to be. You’re competing with the perfect girl who lives in your head and is temporarily wearing someone else’s skin to taunt you. She is always beautiful, always cool, always effortlessly talented, never lonely or embarrassed or unsure.’

#art direction #illustration #the baffler #laurie penny #rebekka dunlap #neoliberalism #patriarchy #feminism #solidarity #late capitalism #equal rights #gender gap #adbyja

Illustration by Devin Washburn.

Verrit Choly and the Infinite Sadness By David V. Johnson The Baffler

“These are people who truly believe that if the American people only grasped the facts—if they only knew the truth-–Donald Trump would lose all legitimacy, Hillary Clinton would be seen as the rightful president, and all would be right with the world. There is perhaps no greater form of denial in politics than the belief that your opponent simply needs to know the truth to be convinced that you’re right.“

#art direction #editorial illustration #the baffler #verrit #daou #hillary #stillwithher #trump derangement syndrome

Illustration by Jupiter Schultz.

Élite Politesse The New Yorker style as content-generation machine By Kyle Paoletta The Baffler

'These peculiarities are as intrinsic to the magazine’s brand as the foppish Eustace Tilley, and, in the digital age, brand determines content. But the rise of the magazine’s copy desk has done more for The New Yorker than simply generate clicks. It has bolstered the reputation of the magazine as a peerless institution, a class above the Vanity Fairs and Economists of the world, even if the reporting and prose in those publications is on par with (if not often better than) what fills the pages of The New Yorker.'

#art direction #editorial illustration #the baffler #jupiter schultz #eustace tilley #the new yorker #caricature #drag #elite #editing #style #branding

Illustration by Brittany Holloway-Brown The Opioid Thief Keep your friends close and your painkillers closer By Amber A’Lee Frost The Baffler

“I noticed the bathroom closet had been ransacked. The makeup bag where the pills had been before was dumped out.”

#art direction #editorial illustration #opiods #addiction #painkillers #friendship #advice #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr

Illustration by 🖌 Shannon Wright 🖌

Get Thee to a City of Ladies Community is now a wet dream or a four-letter word, but somebody has to build it By Jessa Crispin

"What would it take to create a new beguinage, one not segregated by gender or race or religion? I think about this a lot. You would have to find a fair amount of money and property, once provided by the Church. More important, building a beguinage would mean letting go of things that people are taught to think they want but that rarely make them happy, like the nuclear family and total control and privacy in a domestic space. It would mean forced contact with people who are not like you. It would mean reintegrating all the people we have forced from sight, like prisoners and the poor and the mentally ill."

#editorial illustration #the baffler #beguinage #community #commune #urban planning #homemaking #emotional labor #domesticity #dolores hayden #cities of ladies #womens empowerment

An Oasis of Horror in an Internet of Boredom By Angela Nagle The Baffler

Illustration by Colin Kinsley

“’The grotesque tends to operate as a critique of a dominant ideology which has already set the terms, designating what is high and low.’ This is very much how 4chan has long self-described and how it was described by its early ‘progressive’ boosters, except that the dominant ideology in the time of 4chan has been cultural liberalism, and the ‘low’ therefore meant un-PC poor taste, rudeness, shock, offence, and trolling. The carnivalesque was also theorized by Bakhtin, whose ideologically flexible and ambivalent definition sounds like much like some of the self-descriptions of trolls on what trolling is doing:Carnival laughter is the laughter of all the people. Second, it is universal in scope; it is directed at all and everyone, including the carnival’s participants. The entire world is seen in its droll aspect, in its gay relativity. Third, this laughter is ambivalent; it is gay, triumphant, and at the same time mocking, deriding.“

#art direction #editorial illustration #the baffler #angela nagle #transgression #marquis de sade #surrealists #avant-garde #bataille #carnival #adbyja

Anxiety Dream By Miya Tokumitsu The Baffler Illustration by @bernardleeart

“As with our wakefulness, our slumber too is motivated and shaped by anxiety. Those who do protect their eight hours often do so because it helps them perform better at work.“

#artdirection #adbyja #the baffler #sleep #sleep deprivation #workaholism #health #wellness #illustration #artistsontumblr #illustratorsontumblr #bernard lee

Shave the Billionaire By Alex Cuadros The Baffler

Illustration by the supremely talented @richiepope

"In any country, the moral calculus of the business class is pegged, LIBOR-like, to its perception of what it can get away with."

#editorialillustration #illustration #artdirection #the baffler #brazil #eike batista #corruption #fraud #prison #adbyja

Who Framed Augmented Reality? By Johanna King-Slutzky

“The human/drawing interaction trope that Zuckerberg is rebranding as Facebook’s own innovation even predates animated cartoons.“

First commission as The Baffler’s web art director. Illustration: J.R. Bee

#editorial illustration #the baffler #facebook #augmented reality #oculus #social media #tech #animation #cartoon #art direction #j.r. bee #adbyja

Why Girls are Starting Puberty Early Increases in obesity appear to be the major culprit, but family stress and exposure to chemicals may also play a role

Illustration by Melody Newcomb

#illustration #science illustration #scientific american #editorial illustration #puberty #obesity #melody newcomb

Wooing the Fence-sitters To get measles vaccine coverage for all, try small nudges to hesitant parents

Illustration by Steven P. Hughes

#illustration #science illustration #scientific american #editorial illustration #vaccination #steven p hughes

It’s Time to Go to Europa A mission to Jupiter’s icy moon is our best shot at finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system

Illustration by Sachin Teng

#illustration #science illustration #scientific american #editorial illustration #sachin teng #europa #jupiter #space exploration #nasa

Truth in Digital Advertising As we consume more and more of our media on mobile devices, advertisers are finding sneakier ways to deliver their messages

Illustration by Lisk Feng

#illustration #science illustration #scientific american #editorial illustration #advertising #mobile advertising #lisk feng

Artificial Sweeteners Get a Gut Check The substances may change bacteria in our digestive systems in ways that lead to obesity

Illustration by Skip Sterling

#illustration #science illustration #editorial illustration #scientific american #skip sterling #microbiome #obesity

Ban the Tan Tanning beds can be seductive, addictive and a route to cancer—especially for teenagers

Illustration by Cleonique Hilsaca

#illustration #science illustration #scientific american #tanning #cleonique hilsaca #editorial illustration

Unclear for Takeoff Overly strict regulations could quash the drone revolution before it launches

Illustration by Miko Maciaszek

#illustration #science illustration #scientific american #drones

A Case for Education Moon Shots Why the U.S. needs to establish a DARPA of pedagogy

Illustration by Oliver Munday Art Direction by Jason Arias

#illustration #science illustration #scientific american #DARPA #oliver munday

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