Tag: Big Pharma
How Capitalism Disordered Our Eating
Metaphors for the body abound: a many-horse-powered machine, a delicate ecosystem, a knife-cut sculpture. Eating disorders might skirt the body’s regular rules, but they’re still invested in symmetry and measurements, engineering; the body reimagined as a race car instead of a sensible sedan. Built for speed, stares, grinding to a sudden halt and burning up, sparking gasps.
At first, the hum. A nicotine head high, a purring engine. The numbers going down, the compliments adding up
Eating disorder deaths often … Read more
Nan Goldin’s Life Between Art and Activism
I had turned off my phone’s ringer before a screening of Laura Poitras’s new film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, but about halfway through I felt it silently buzz: a notification. I pulled the phone out of my pocket and saw that what had arrived was a “breaking news” alert from The New York Times: “Walmart, the largest U.S. retailer, agreed to pay $3.1 billion to resolve thousands
Breaking Off My Chemical Romance
The Brave New World of Legalized Psychedelics Is Already Here
Illustration by Josh Gosfield.
Wealthy Countries Have Left the Rest of the World Behind
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