Sublime

In a modern society, who is allowed to speak with authority is a political act.

Drawing on what ethnographers have called thick description, I finally found a label as complex as my way of thinking.

Saying why it matters is one of those sticky things about my work.

Being too much of one thing and not enough of another had been a recurring theme in my life.

When a woman must consume the tastes of her social position to keep it, but cannot control the tastes that define said position, she is suspended in a state of being negged.

We do not share much in the U.S. culture of individualism except our delusions about meritocracy.

More often than not the hierarchy of diffuse status characteristics overpowers any status characteristics that we earn.

Then, and only then, will you understand the relative value of a ridiculous status symbol to someone who intuits that they cannot afford to not have it.