Plastic Surgery is Not a Hobby
What if beauty was just our name for experiences that push us out of our mental ruts and burst open our reducing valves of consciousness?
Bianca Bosker • Get the Picture
beauty is not a luxury
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter le... See more
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
In the world of fake beauty, it is alway summer: sunny, bright, and without shadows—a land of ones and zeros where everyone is sexy and in the flush of life, never tired, broken, or irritated.