Swaddle Tag

In ‘Love Under Capitalism,’ we have a look at how desire, intimacy, and relationships intersect with the logic of capitalism.Does beauty exist?It was an issue writ large, albeit implicitly, when the Web woke as much as Nepal’s Miss Universe contestant, Jane Dipika Garrett, sashaying down the runway in a swimsuit – the pageant’s only “plus-size” contestant in its history. She was beautiful. Everyone agreed, nodding along that beauty is more “inclusive” today, mouthing platitudes about “big” being beautiful, not questioning the rhetorical slip of “plus-size” to explain a girl who's only a bit larger than the typical model. Not acknowledging, even, the way in which “plus” implies a traditional – a variety of points above the usual, the desirable. Selecting...