What It’s Like to Be Tumblr Famous

What It’s Like to Be Tumblr Famous

From Vice, August 13, 2013 by Johanna King Slutzky: "The answer may lie in a phenomenon that's of particular interest to me, which culture critic Kate Durbin termed “the teen girl Tumblr aesthetic,” a term which Durbin and coauthor Alicia Eler coined in an essay...

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“How to Win at Tinder?”

“How to Win at Tinder?”

From Le Monde (France), February 13, 2016 by Hubert Guillaud: "Comment gagner à Tinder ?, s’interrogeaient cet été dans un épatant billetpour le New Inquiry, Alicia Eler (@aliciaeler) et Eve Peyser (@evepeyser). Pour les deux jeunes femmes, Tinder, la célèbre...

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The Best Things We Read in 2015 – GAWKER

The Best Things We Read in 2015 – GAWKER

From Gawker, December 30th, 2015 by Gawker Staff: “How to Win Tinder” by Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser at The New Inquiry What, exactly, is Tinder? In their essay about the dominant mobile dating app, Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser explore the values, pitfalls, and invisible...

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Now Netflix Is All Thumbs

Now Netflix Is All Thumbs

From The New York Times, March 31, 2017 by Tom Vanderbilt: "The Netflix move seems another example of what Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser, in an essay in The New Inquiry, call “the tinderization of feeling.” The dating app Tinder, they argue, “is a metaphor for speeding...

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The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday

From The New Yorker, March 24, 2016, by Haley Mlotek: "The year before, the artists Alicia Eler and Kate Durbin had made a similar argument in identifying the “Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic,” and Lindsay Zoladz, writing for Pitchfork, identified Lana del Rey as a kind of...

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Conversation Art Podcast Ep.#148 with Alicia Eler

Conversation Art Podcast Ep.#148 with Alicia Eler

Highland Park-based art and culture writer Alicia Eler talks about: Her home in Highland Park, where’s she a tenant of the owners of the artist-run Adjunct Positions, and so never far from an opening and artists, and where she’s become a kind of permanent...

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Podcast Interview – Products of the Mind

Podcast Interview – Products of the Mind

So psyched to be featured on David Lizerbram's iTunes podcast, Products of the Mind!  Today on Products of the Mind: Author and Tinder Expert Alicia Eler What is "The Tinderization of Feeling?" Author, artist, and comedian Alicia Eler writes about Tinder and other...

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That Capitalist Vision of Thomas Kinkade

That Capitalist Vision of Thomas Kinkade

PAINTING ON PUZZLES, greeting cards, and even La-Z-Boys, Thomas Kinkade may be the most ubiquitous artist in America—and possibly the most commercially successful—yet he was largely ignored by the art world during his lifetime. Kinkade died in 2012, but even in death...

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#TimesUp for the myth of the male ‘genius’

#TimesUp for the myth of the male ‘genius’

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 18, 2018, by Mary-Louise Schumacher: The life of Mary Nohl, the late Fox Point artist, would make a fine biopic. JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER Do we really need to put to rest the myth of the artist as a lone, male genius in...

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Sweet blog post/ review of Illuminati Girl Gang 4

Sweet blog post/ review of Illuminati Girl Gang 4

I recently discovered this awesome blog post/review of Illuminati Girl Gang 4. Check out the kind words from Katie Walck (@KatieWalck) on her blog THE LE SIGH: "There's also a really amazing piece by Alicia Eler called 'Besties,' a story of the emotional intensity...

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