Rachel Vorona Cote's saved articles

I’m getting my PhD in art history and while I’m sure that we could (and should) have a discussion about the artistic merits/demerits of Cattelan’s sculpture, I have to agree that Rachel is well within her purview to call it “creepy as fuck”. As far as I know, she doesn’t claim any status as an art critic, so her… Read more

I second that. Read more

I hope he is physically okay and that he gets the help he seems to need. Read more

I’ve actually seen this sculpture up close and in person, and I can vouch for the fact that it is indeed creepy AF. It’s gorgeously executed, which makes it even more disturbing - even up close, it is insanely lifelike. I am having the hardest time understanding what possible scenario some rich fucker has to have in… Read more

I can imagine Mel Brooks making this purchase. Then maybe filming him, Flat Stanley like in a multiple of locations. Selling photos of those and donating the proceeds to the Holocaust Museums. Or the Weisel Center. Read more

Humanoid Ratigan
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I wonder what the public discussion over “safe spaces” would look like if we first all attempted to agree on exactly what a “safe space” is. Because I feel like this issue is an excuse for people to free associate on what it sounds like to them and argue over the feelings it inspires, instead of, like, concrete… Read more

As with all stories about this guy, the details are horrible, but the filed to made me LOL so loud that my cat was startled awake, so thanks for that :) Read more

Oh, that God. Such a scamp! Read more

The filed to on this is perfection Read more

You just made my fucking night with the Ratigan reference. Read more

also, i love you for sampling Great Mouse Detective Read more

second rule of politics: Read more

As a TA, I hear these kind of statements from my students a lot, but I don’t see it as a big deal. They’re just using “I feel” as a replacement for “I think.” And despite what Worthan argues, it’s not impossible to correct or build upon these statements. If I can do it with less than a year of teaching experience… Read more

When I first got to undergrad back in 2008 and met the person who’d become my best friend, I was floored when we were having a conversation - can’t even remember about what - and she said “I feel...” Read more

Academic condemns students “feeling” things as “tyranny.” The irony is rich and buttery. Read more

This gal needs to read some affect theory Read more

Interesting. I know I say “I feel like” a lot but I think it’s more a product of having been in therapy for so many years. Anyone else? Read more

Rather than condemn millennials—and those, shall we say, contaminated by them—for shirking “responsibility” through discourse, let’s acknowledge our more pressing duty: to stop policing speech, and instead welcome the voices clamoring to be heard. Read more

I use that phrase all the time. And I've never thought about it till now, but it's true that I use it more in situations where I feel outnumbered, where I feel like an outsider. Read more