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pixelunion-staff: Blogs We Like: The New Inquiry Thanks to the spread of academic cultural studies in the 1990s and early 2000s, most popular writing on arts and culture has become about as engaging as a chorus of dog farts. Humor and novelty all but disappeared as people repeatedly trotted out the same tired theses on postmodernity, from the same class-unconscious perspectives. The New Inquiry is one of very few publications to shirk that trend of irrelevance and sophistry. Co-founded and currently co-edited by Mary Borkowski, Jennifer Bernstein, and Rachel Rosenfelt, The New Inquiry is completely free, online, and brilliant. Currently celebrating its 1-year anniversary, TNI has recently covered topics as diverse as Ai Weiwei, police mortality, sexual economies, and plastic. TNI is every bit the “space for discussion” it aims to be, expertly “putting all available resources—both digital and material—toward the promotion and exploration of ideas.” In addition to following TNI on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter, consider spending a measely $2/month for a subscription, which gives you early access to articles and full archive privileges. pixelunion-staff: Blogs We Like: The New Inquiry Thanks to the spread of academic cultural studies in the 1990s and early 2000s, most popular writing on arts and culture has become about as engaging as a chorus of dog farts. Humor and novelty all but disappeared as people repeatedly trotted out the same tired theses on postmodernity, from the same class-unconscious perspectives. The New Inquiry is one of very few publications to shirk that trend of irrelevance and sophistry. Co-founded and currently co-edited by Mary Borkowski, Jennifer Bernstein, and Rachel Rosenfelt, The New Inquiry is completely free, online, and brilliant. Currently celebrating its 1-year anniversary, TNI has recently covered topics as diverse as Ai Weiwei, police mortality, sexual economies, and plastic. TNI is every bit the “space for discussion” it aims to be, expertly “putting all available resources—both digital and material—toward the promotion and exploration of ideas.” In addition to following TNI on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter, consider spending a measely $2/month for a subscription, which gives you early access to articles and full archive privileges.

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    Blogs We Like: The New Inquiry

    Thanks to the spread of academic cultural studies in the 1990s and early 2000s, most popular writing on arts and culture has become about as engaging as a chorus of dog farts. Humor and novelty all but disappeared as people repeatedly trotted out the same tired theses on postmodernity, from the same class-unconscious perspectives. The New Inquiry is one of very few publications to shirk that trend of irrelevance and sophistry.

    Co-founded and currently co-edited by Mary Borkowski, Jennifer Bernstein, and Rachel Rosenfelt, The New Inquiry is completely free, online, and brilliant. Currently celebrating its 1-year anniversary, TNI has recently covered topics as diverse as Ai Weiwei, police mortality, sexual economies, and plastic. TNI is every bit the “space for discussion” it aims to be, expertly “putting all available resources—both digital and material—toward the promotion and exploration of ideas.”

    In addition to following TNI on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter, consider spending a measely $2/month for a subscription, which gives you early access to articles and full archive privileges.

    vicemag: How to Pay Your Student Loans Without Actually Paying Them There are two rhetorical positions commonly adopted when addressing the topic of student loans, one held by those with robust monthly incomes, the other championed by magical thinkers whose earning powers border on the anemic. Try to guess which is which: 1) “You shouldn’t have gotten into so much debt in the first place if you didn’t have a responsible plan to pay it off. Quit complaining and get to work.” 2) “Student loans exploit children by luring them with the promise of non-existent careers into borrowing inconceivable sums. The system is broken; defaulting counts as civil disobedience.” If you’re partial to the first of these arguments, then you should stop reading this immediately and go hang out in your bathtub full of gold-plated caviar (or whatever it is you people do), but if you’re listing towards the latter position, then it only stands to reason that you should get out of your student loan debt as quickly and painlessly as possible. And there are actually ways to do that. Check it out

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    How to Pay Your Student Loans Without Actually Paying Them

    There are two rhetorical positions commonly adopted when addressing the topic of student loans, one held by those with robust monthly incomes, the other championed by magical thinkers whose earning powers border on the anemic. Try to guess which is which:

    1) “You shouldn’t have gotten into so much debt in the first place if you didn’t have a responsible plan to pay it off. Quit complaining and get to work.”

    2) “Student loans exploit children by luring them with the promise of non-existent careers into borrowing inconceivable sums. The system is broken; defaulting counts as civil disobedience.”

    If you’re partial to the first of these arguments, then you should stop reading this immediately and go hang out in your bathtub full of gold-plated caviar (or whatever it is you people do), but if you’re listing towards the latter position, then it only stands to reason that you should get out of your student loan debt as quickly and painlessly as possible. And there are actually ways to do that. Check it out