Back in 2021, after a year of pandemic, I was, like most, fully sluiced in technological fluid, and I started thinking about the problem of engaging with the material world through a social media timeline. Reckoning with the detached voyeur this made me into, I wrote (about seeing something online): “The experience of viewing is […]
In 2001, Raf Simons adorned the runway with keffiyehs for his “Riot! Riot! Riot!” Autumn/Winter collection. Nicolas Ghesquière incorporated a keffiyeh in his Balenciaga’s 2007 Fall/Winter “Traveller” collection. That same year, Urban Outfitters pioneered a loving-hipster trend, which, for one reason or another, saw keffiyehs lining its shelves and, as a result, had Tumblr dashboards […]
It was 4am at Columbia University’s Morningside campus this time last year, the sky above mostly veiled and the grass jeweling under receding campus lamplights. The trees stood stiff and dark, their branches like ribs cracked open to expose nothing at all. Over sixty students had grabbed seventy green tents, rolled tight and uniform, and […]
