She uses impasto paint handling as a signifier of earth, guts, and skin, rather than a signifier of prowess.
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If a phallic signifier points to action, explosion, and fortitude, a yonic signifier points to the subconscious, the sublime, and the cosmic void.
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They both used practically the same garment as a signifier.
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Names themselves are important as a signifier of identity throughout.
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In India, diet is an important signifier of group identity.
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A ring or other signifier of the agreement is acquired.
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Indeed, productivity itself has become a kind of class signifier.
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Extravagant toys are the other obvious signifier of status at sea.
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"'Middle class' stands as a signifier for whites," Haney-López argued.
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The base signifier regarding the gun in American life is the
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Stand up desks are the signifier of trendy office spaces everywhere.
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They are the most important signifier and, sometimes, the great equalizer.
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After all, it's an easy signifier; something almost anyone can read.
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But it often comes across as a signifier of ambivalence and shame.
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If that's not a breakup signifier, then we don't know what is.
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It was a signifier that he was not preaching to the converted.
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It is the bridge between generations and the signifier of a story.
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The way a nation treats women is the signifier of a nation's greatness.
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I don't know if that's a signifier for Mad Hatter or someone else.
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Having the same planetary signifier for hundreds of years just doesn't interest you.
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That Mr. Dudamel has finally arrived is an important signifier for the company.
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That idea — food as a signifier of status and wealth — still holds today.
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On social media, "na-tokhang" has become a sliding signifier with infinite possibilities.
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Alex Niven: Having said that, I think this was a truly empty signifier.
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Pandemonium at VidCon is generally a good signifier of what people actually care about.
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I wanted for these images to act as a signifier for the street below.
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The take-away coffee cup has practically become a signifier for getting shit done.
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It was a signifier of being older and therefore closer to sex, I suppose.
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"Some have referred to the term as 'symbolic glue,' or an 'empty signifier,'" Reid writes.
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Unsurprisingly, Cadillac is French, historically a language wielded as a signifier of elegance and class.
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Color is a big signifier in determining whether an element on a website is interactive.
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Each of the graves features a signifier of that character, making them seem more authentic.
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West was more a signifier than a place; in watching the films of Fellini and
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Prison and gang tattoos are often used as a signifier for rank or crimes committed.
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His album art is by Takashi Murakami, that empty aesthete signifier who favors exuberant simplicity.
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As long as it sounded like a signifier of outsized achievement, it didn't really matter.
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Perhaps that's because it does have one signifier that we associate with the personal essay.
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Party affiliation was a tautology for itself, not a rich signifier of principles and perspective.
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By the way, if we're talking prophecy here, virgin births are a pretty big Messianic signifier.
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I think it was just a signifier saying if you liked classic rock, we got you.
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Bloomquist says that having Amazon on one's resume is certainly a valuable signifier to future employers.
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Since its inception, the BeltLine had become the ultimate signifier of a new, stylish, green Atlanta.
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After leaving, a giant blue dome is placed over the restaurant, a CDA signifier of contamination.
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What is it about female profanity — or her possible profanity specifically — that's such a potent signifier?
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And I liked the idea of goth as sort of a possible signifier in a flirtation.
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For Democrats, support for natural gas has always been a signifier of moderation on climate policy.
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The clip takes place under a full moon, a signifier that just about anything could happen.
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Taken together, they chart the evolution of eyewear from medical device to intellectual signifier to fashion accessory.
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The n-word is not the signifier for racism; the lived experiences of people of color are.
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The book ends with a close reading of plastic as pollution, artistic material, and eco-cultural signifier.
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And when choosing the perfect gift, the high price is often seen as a signifier of quality.
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One hopes that 2 WTC will not merely become a signifier of Downtown's final, triumphant, ecstatic financialization.
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In Europe, it doesn't seem to have been so much a racial signifier as a color symbolism.
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That hint of lip color was the only signifier Dowds used to suggest life in Chastain's face.
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To them, Officer Familia's death was seen as a grim signifier of their growing front-line roles.
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The lack of a "V" letter in Arabic meant adopting the next closest signifier — Vartanian became Wartanian.
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When and why did fashion's elite decide that our biggest cultural signifier of camp is just … pink?
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"We" is the most common signifier of inclusion, but it is also the sneakiest instrument of exclusion.
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Ahead of the election, voter turnout was considered to be the main signifier of Putin's hold on Russia.
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Part of their challenge is training consumers to understand that sustainability is a process, rather than a signifier.
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A new book by Amanda Boetzkes looks at the material as an artistic medium and eco-cultural signifier.
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His decision not to run is not a signifier that his personal ambition has dimmed, those sources said.
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"In popular culture, iPhone is considered a stylish class signifier, and Android is considered comparatively uncool," they write.
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In each case, the source genre is denuded, reduced to an unobtrusive lilt — reggae as signifier, not engine.
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Since those days, however, not waiting — at all, for anything — has been the far more potent status signifier.
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If AirPower was a pithy signifier, the degradation of the company's Mac line has been Apple's abasement opus.
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The parallel implies that fluency in many languages is a signifier of a growing heartfelt connection between hosts.
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The gallery space has become a key signifier of hipster decadence in neighborhoods with an influx of gentrifiers.
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Sadly, despite its attempt to earnestly categorize bands, it never stuck as a signifier the first time around.
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The change started in the mid 60s, because the music became a huge signifier of what was different.
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The architects force the viewer to reckon with the model as a true signifier of the larger structure.
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"It's more like a signifier of gay social history," explains Paul Baker, a Polari expert at Lancaster University.
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The fruit has been hailed as a superfood and, more recently, derided as a signifier of millennial excess.
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"Most studies use statistical significance as a signifier of whether the correlation between screens and sleep 'exists,'" Przybylski said.
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"The best signifier of a country that's really on its way isn't a society with no inequality," he said.
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The stoop is a quintessential signifier of BRIC's focus on making people feel that the organization is for them.
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In Aamis, "meat" also remains the constant signifier of the fervid othering that has now become routine in India.
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There's something refreshingly honest to me about TRONICBOX's remixes, though—he's not using dated sounds as a prestige signifier.
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That is why black has become a cultural signifier within noise black metal theory and transcendental black metal music.
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She buttoned her shirt all the way to the damn top, which is something of a queer signifier nowadays:
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It does, after all, act as a smartly designed signifier that you've given up any aspirations you once held.
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Tattoos act as this signifier to the world of who we are and what we do and our stories.
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And could pregnancy become a class signifier in the same vein as claiming welfare, or living in public housing?
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I imagine most of us dislike publicly discussing how emotionally traumatizing it is to lose this signifier of beauty.
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A small change, perhaps, but a signifier that Mr. Pollard fully belonged to the ranks of New York's Bravest.
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That's right, the seemingly bygone material has recently made a comeback as "a signifier of luxury," according to the Times.
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Rather, it's just the latest signifier of her pop cultural dominance, and another meta-layer to the Peppa Pig fandom.
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You will feel Thursday's solar eclipse strongly, as it illuminates your opposite sign, Cancer, the signifier of your partnerships sector.
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In old Hollywood movies, African-American music is a complicated signifier, not least for the white characters who appreciate it.
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This football story is just one more signifier of the devastating and wide-ranging effects of poverty and gaping inequality.
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In fact, their primary signifier may simply be the fact that it often feels impossible to dress for the weather.
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Once a tag of antiracist coalition building, today in its modern, wholesale application, the term has become a bruised signifier.
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The color's meaning, and signifier as a form of female empowerment and protest at major public moments, has been codified.
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It's a campfire singalong, a signifier of tactile humanity for a singer who knows how technology both redeems and corrupts.
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In particular, Variety called the speech "extraordinary" and hailed it as a signifier of the Golden Globes' ascension to respectability.
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In today's media, "evangelical" has shifted from the historic definition to become more of a rough political and ethnic signifier.
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Instead, food in a Ruth Reichl book is a cultural tool, alternately a signifier of power or luxury or social cachet.
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Perhaps the growing importance to the economy of intangible assets, such as brands and ideas, makes book value an unreliable signifier.
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Hollywood's apparent preference for black actors in gang-related roles is a signifier that the industry's casting directors engage in typecasting.
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"BF: "Another really good signifier of 'Whos' is that when they're covered in the press, they always need an extra descriptor.
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With purple's historic connotations of bravery and power, Syms recuperates the color and uses it as a signifier of female empowerment.
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"The change in spending patterns among the rich are probably the biggest signifier of class divide in America today," she said.
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Removing the mental health label from transgender identity would be a powerful signifier of acceptance, advocates and mental health professionals say.
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Though it is iconic of 70s surf and drug culture, it is also an ageless signifier of life on the fringes.
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By rejecting them, the school can claim a lower acceptance rate, which many see a signifier of a school's academic prestige.
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Because of their connection to sport and wealth, heels went on to become a signifier of social class in Western Europe.
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In guidebooks, charm tends to be a commercial marker, a signifier for an imaginary, easily salable and consumable notion of authenticity.
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In the West, the image of Asian people with masks is sometimes wielded, deliberately or not, as a signifier of otherness.
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My siblings and I were allowed to select one cake from the book each year as a sweet signifier of aging.
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Before sushi could become a perfect American convenience food, it first had to become food and not just a cultural signifier.
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According to court documents, the division of those tracks is a powerful signifier that the segregated school system has only reinforced.
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What started as a mockable fashion statement by a certain female politician has become a selfie signifier in the current election.
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But the most prominent signifier of naturalness, and the primary reason many people take their first sip, is the lack of additives.
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But in American cocktail culture — especially its most rarefied, la-di-da precincts — bitterness has become a signifier of sophistication and discernment.
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For Gutiérrez, the recent developments are a signifier of something else coming from the White House: prejudice against Hispanics and other immigrants.
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To still have this be a lesbian signifier in media is at best extremely corny, at middle lazy, and at worst offensive.
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In each instance, Ms. Goldberg challenges and expands our ideas of blackness by conjuring up an audible signifier typically identified with whiteness.
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In accordance with long misogynist tradition, the film frames this refusal to submit to pregnancy as a five-alarm signifier of wickedness.
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For many years, it was also — in the eyes of some of its fans, though by no means all — a social signifier.
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Now natural wine has become a signifier of bourgeois taste in certain social circles and on certain menus across the United States.
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Image courtesy of The Games Europe Plays A kind of reverse of this piece is Slovakian artist's Ivor Diosi's Molding the Signifier.
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The show's phonetic title seems to capture the vulva just before it solidifies into a signifier, renewing its possibilities of meaning production.
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Additionally, the signifier we place in front of artists who are not white males often affects the way in which they are perceived.
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At MOCA, an elegant fusion of oral histories and visual art exemplifies Chinese food as a signifier of the familiar and the foreign.
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Access to cellphone service or any other signifier of modern telecommunications (such as high-speed internet) is something many Americans take for granted.
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The capital F feminist signifier wasn't ever slapped on her music as a means of promotion—not like it is today, at least.
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The title itself acquires multiple meanings, whether as an affectionate shorthand for kisses, a mathematical symbol or simply a signifier of the unknowable.
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That way, fashion could be free to become purely a signifier, a concept, and the more pared-down, simple and iconic the better.
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Berry was a peerless Signifier, reveling in rhyme, alliteration, double entendre, mock grandiloquence, and playful neologisms ("As I was motorvatin' over the hill…").
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The Queen is a blank master-signifier, something that structures our national discourse without ever having to point toward anything other than itself.
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Not just because of its conspicuous size and weight but because it seemed like a signifier for visions of tranquillity from bygone times.
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The problem is that wins matter very much once you get to the midcard, but not as a mystical signifier of backstage esteem.
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The black boots, sweats, pants and ski masks of the Antifa movement are a more broad-based and free-floating signifier of anarchy.
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The senator from Vermont, whatever else he may achieve in 2020, has risen to the level of empty, vaguely humorous pop-cultural signifier.
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Her "Waterfall" remains a semblance, a signifier of the actual thing — in fact, not even of the thing, but of its characteristic movement.
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Lead single "Big Bank," a boisterous bop with song-of-the-summer potential, was a true signifier for the direction he was heading.
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For decades, the car has been the all-American signifier of who you are, a declaration of independence, a place where you are master.
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Unlike Trump's MAGA hat, he has not yet embraced the hot pink Miami Vice style cap that has become a signifier of support online.
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The most exciting thing about working on this film, Govan says, is that each character has their own signifier used to make a statement.
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Axios' Felix Salmon points out that beyond an education or credential, what students buy from fancy universities is social context, an invisible class signifier.
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I had no idea what the term meant, but it felt like a cultural signifier that I, as a Latina, should be aware of.
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This is a good signifier of a suture's strength, said Axel Krieger, an assistant to the study, as inconsistent spacing leads to pressure points.
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The problem grew even more dire as travel photography transitioned from a hobby to perhaps the ultimate signifier of the inauthentic and the conformist.
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KandyPens is just one more signifier of the life you want to have, or at least the life you want to watch on YouTube.
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Today, an I.P.A.'s cloudy appearance has become its signifier, even a status symbol, flooding Instagram feeds and inspiring hashtags like #hazyipa and #newenglendipa.
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When 1989 came out, Swift was hyper vocal about feminism, an important signifier then, and her silence now is a complete 180 in character.
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To some extent, the Gaines brand is likely thriving in part because it is also a signifier of cultural values — specifically, conservative Christian values.
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If a record isn't something so valueless you can't give it away, it's the signifier of taste and an ambitious, highly tailored social life.
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She translates Edgar Allan Poe's letter, a floating signifier devoid of a signified (we never learn what the letter says), into a visual image.
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And as pop culture becomes an ever-greater signifier of identity, and the country grows ever more politically polarized, the two categories slip together.
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My long hair was regularly called "beautiful" and I believed was a signifier of my femininity; I wondered whether my short hair would challenge this.
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They are not due to stop using their "Royal Highness" titles — the formal signifier that they are senior royals — until the spring of this year.
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They choose, instead, to recommit to each other each and every day, believing that to be a better signifier of their love than a ceremony.
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It was a signifier that men's fashion week had importance in the grand scheme of the industry and showed its importance to the UK's economy.
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Bourdieu argues that elite status is inextricably tied with cultural capital; he speaks particularly about the love of art as a signifier of elite status.
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Bearish sentiment increased when sectors such as Biotech, Materials, and Financials fell more than 20% off 52-week highs--the signifier of a bear market.
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Sales of $8.72 billion beat estimates of $8.52 billion, while new orders - a signifier of future growth - were in line with forecasts at $8.16 billion.
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Those sexbots are a particular campy signifier of dystopia, but they also fit neatly into Atwood's other major preoccupation: the idea of a shadow self.
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If this is right, then the alienation of younger evangelical writers from Trumpism's court pastors could indeed be a signifier of a coming evangelical crackup.
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" Or, as the academics Katelynn Bishop, Kjerstin Gruys and Maddie Evans said in their study "Sized out: Women, Clothing Size and Inequality," a "floating signifier.
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This video is highly formal, drawing on relations between sign and signifier; it is a fairly direct critique of the domestic sphere of food production.
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Scroll through Giphy or Tumblr and you'll find endless GIFs of the 2200-year-old justice, slouching in her crown: the eternal signifier of hip.
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The phonetic title of Cristina Camacho's /ˈvʌlvə/ seems to capture the vulva just before it solidifies into a signifier, renewing its possibilities of meaning production.
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It demonstrates her unshakable ability to take nearly any idea, person, or cultural signifier and absorb it into her own brand, just by tinting it rosy.
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Purchasing household items might sound small, but that action is a big signifier that I'm done bucketing my life into "married" and "not yet married" activities.
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Perhaps the biggest signifier to Rashad's legacy is that selectors continue to regularly run DJ Rashad's music, both new and old, in clubs around the world.
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While it's best used to describe a false story that becomes widely shared because it confirms deeply held biases, it has largely become a floating signifier.
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In a time when many artists are content to establish one-to-one correspondences between signifier and signified, sign and meaning, Wardell Milan's ambiguity is refreshing.
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This might not be as visually romantic a scene as that first one, but the essence is the same—and the song acts as a signifier.
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And that is part of why the relationship worked so well: It was so mutually beneficial not just as a friendship, but as a professional signifier.
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The fact that sex robots recur as a kind of cultural signifier is itself a sign that cultural and sexual discourse are, to a degree, cyclical.
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All of the breakneck changes to policy and terms is a signifier of the company's tumultuous era, and not a great sign for users or investors.
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One thing's for sure: Outdoor Voices' leggings and other "Doing Things" staples have become the ultimate signifier that you can be into fashion and physical activity simultaneously.
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In the four years since Tinder's launch, the right swipe has become the prevailing signifier of our generation—shorthand for like, lust, and (possibly, hopefully, finally) love.
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The transformative aspect of using the body as a signifier is particularly relevant now, in light of the increasing ostracism and fear of Muslims in the West.
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But it is still true that Trumpian bullshit serves not only as a test of elite loyalty, but as a signifier of belonging to a mass audience.
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His photograph of a snowbound Central Park, from the following year, presents a virgin landscape in which the only signifier of civilization is a colorfully glowing stoplight.
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A signifier of investor sentiment, holdings of SPDR Gold Trust, the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund languished near their lowest since mid-December last year.
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In China, where Apple has been a signifier of wealth and fashion, and where many Chinese update their smartphones each year, Mr. Yu is not an outlier.
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Meanings and designations not only invert and collapse into each other, but the same unhooking of signifier from signified that underwrote so much of "theory" is ridiculed.
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And while my Om is, to me, not necessarily a religious symbol, it is still so much more than a signifier of Western thirst for Eastern spirituality.
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In some cultures, the unibrow — sometimes called a monobrow — is even seen as a sign of good luck, and for men, a signifier of virility and fertility.
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Beginning in the 1990s, AIDS activists re-appropriated the term as a signifier of self-identity, to highlight the ugliness of homophobia in order to confront it.
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Lace was a signifier of status throughout the 17th century, and Six believes Rembrandt had a signature way of depicting this variety, which is called bobbin lace.
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He's a comedy signifier, most famously lampooned by Will Ferrell on "Saturday Night Live" for many years, but he also seems to be in on the joke.
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Photographer and writer Chris Arnade has invested substantial time engaging with people at McDonald's restaurants around the country and writing about McDonald's-as-signifier for The Guardian.
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Stuart Hall, the cultural theorist and sociologist, analyzed race as what he termed a "floating signifier" (a term that originated with the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss).
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Paul Chan's "Pillowsophia (after Trinity)" (2017) hovers above Greene Naftali's booth, evoking the black hoodie of Trayvon Martin as a ghoulish signifier of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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I was always taught that long hair was ideal and was a signifier of being chaste, marriage material, whereas short or shaved hair related to promiscuity and shame.
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Sure, owning the latest and greatest Apple product was still a cultural signifier, however, what it signified was less cultural cache and more a proclivity toward conspicuous consumption.
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The problem is the pervasive use of "ghetto" as an ahistoric cultural signifier of all things bad, broke and black: ghetto schools, ghetto jobs, ghetto names, ghetto music.
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Wait, didn't you know that the humble bucket hat —once so beloved of both Hunter S Thompson and Chris Evans— is the signifier of the house/skate aesthetic?
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Indeed, Disney has a propensity for using leather on its baddies, which should suggest the extent to which the material has become a popular signifier of low character.
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But economists view the two- to 10-year spread as a better signifier of impending recession, and even then only when it is inverted for a sustained period.
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Mr. Yang's tielessness, after all, is a widely understood signifier of his tech success status; Mr. Steyer's penchant for tartan is — well, what in the world is it?
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Spartacus is still shown in high school history classes across the nation, and his cleft chin remains a signifier of a specific and steadfast type of virile masculinity.
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Obsessed with the notion of modern art as a signifier of mental and physical deformity, Nordau condemned it in terms astonishingly similar to his condemnation of diaspora Jews.
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No longer bound by functionality or finesse, contemporary artists are revisiting and revitalizing the portrait as a signifier of presence via a reservoir of constructed, culturally influenced identities.
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A final (thoroughly unscientific) signifier that this list exhibits an age divide is the fact that nearly every cereal-consuming millennial I showed it to took issue with it.
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I notice the security guard in charge of the queue is wearing a ring with a skull on it, surely a clear signifier of a love of rock music.
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Meanwhile, a shaved head often indicates a godlike mental ability — think Deadpool's Negasonic Teenage Warhead or Stranger Things' Eleven — but can also double as a signifier of sexual preferences.
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The brand's C-covered collection of crossbodies, totes, and — who can forget — wristlets, were a sort-of status symbol, and a signifier of luxury goods that still felt attainable.
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For a decade and a half, from the first wave of "X-Men" movies to Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, terroristic disaster is now the ultimate signifier of seriousness.
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I felt tormented by the meaninglessness of human existence, and the utter collapse of meaning—the signifier "pasta" tumbling about in the void of consciousness, signifying nothing and everything.
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However, Friday's hiring of designer Bouchra Jarrar at Lanvin felt like a breath of fresh air; a signifier that the industry could be on the verge of a revival.
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Even as its most original artists have evolved well beyond its confines, trap remains an aesthetic signifier—one for which Gucci Mane unequivocally wrote the Burrprint (sorry had to).
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The other set of 10th generation CPUs based on an older microarchitecture doesn't have the same quality of graphics or any signifier of the type of integrated GPU inside.
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Voodoo culture was perceived to be a signifier of the country's "savage inferiority" — and when the United States occupied Haiti in 1915, Catholic missionaries set out to dismantle it.
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That idea — that we've gone from keeping up with the Joneses to keeping up with the Kardashians — understanding that made them a much more powerful signifier in my work.
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The overall effect was a debate that was not itself a transformative moment in the campaign so much as a signifier of how the campaign has been transformed once again.
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If there is one signifier of the kind of assertive, carefree-yet-charming Pinterest femininity that defines millennials, it is undeniably the lob, the signature hairstyle of cool girls everywhere.
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You don't need Jacques Lacan to tell you that the signifier is always a replacement for the potency of an absent phallus; just go anywhere in Chicago, and look upwards.
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But before Facebook was a news juggernaut, Liking pages was a way to flesh out your online identity, a signifier every bit as visible as a T-shirt or pin.
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"It's a signifier that as long as I'm wearing this, I'll feel good, I'm pretty, loved, and getting attention, and that nothing else makes me feel special," Dr. Ingraham said.
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Historically, the practice of tending to one's nails was seen as a signifier of wealth and power, but was never limited to the gendered experience some view it as today.
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In a time when many artists and writers are content to establish one-to-one correspondences between signifier and signified, sign and meaning, I found Milan's ambiguity to be refreshing.
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"Minimalism" was eventually canonized as an art-historical movement, but the name came to mean something different as it was adopted into consumer culture and turned into a class signifier.
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Even their logo was a signifier to the classic rock fonts of the 70s, like the result of a drunken orgy among the logos of Thin Lizzy, Boston, and Aerosmith.
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"People tend to think of buying a house as a signifier of being an adult, and that if you can't afford it, you're somehow not an adult," Mx. Mamak said.
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Many fans wore T-shirts saying, "Defend the Land," with "Land" being both a nickname for Cleveland and a signifier of the proprietary feeling its residents have for their town.
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This disparity between, in this case, signifier and signified, raises the question: what is the best way to convey something, especially if the essence of it seems to escape appearance?
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Roy Cohn, who shares with the Angel and with Trump himself a certain fastidious disgust at the idea of intermingling, was in the '80s a signifier of violent, hypocritical homophobia.
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One of them is the album's opening track, "Everything_Now (Continued)," which you may notice is incongruous, because "(Continued)" is usually a parenthetical signifier of a continuation, rather than an introduction.
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"It was a real strange, profound moment for me that this camera was acting as a signifier of power or dominance just by its existence, not its functionality," DeSieno told Hyperallergic.
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However, SATC caused it to plummet further; the former signifier of sophistication was irreparably time-pegged to a show that by today's standards seems more of a parody than an aspiration.
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She needs to turn herself into a kind of empty signifier, distill everything that voters are hopeful for and everything they're dissatisfied with until it becomes synonymous with her own name.
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Fourth, you can't talk about Donald Trump's love for McDonald's as a signifier of an everyman, then, in the same paragraph, compliment the guy for cutting calories by scrapping the bun.
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Given that voices are a tell-tale signifier of location and social class, it's little wonder that FAS sufferers can feel a loss of identity and a skewed sense of self.
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The news of Portnow's departure after a 16-year relationship with the company could be a signifier that change is on the horizon for how an institution like the Grammys operates.
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Femme-identifying women, for example, may practice queer flagging, using an item of clothing or other subtle signifier as a symbol for queer identity, recognizable only to those in the know.
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This matters because, like most superheroes, she is inseparable from her clothing: It is her immediate signifier, the representation of all about her that is special and unique (and kick-butt).
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Her first major role was Emily in Our Town — a part she had already played in high school and one that, in retrospect, seems like a signifier of everything to come.
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If this video is any indication of how Swift feels, it could be a signifier that she feels lost in what she's had to do to amass this level of fame.
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Like Femi, characters also wear bored expressions — an immediate signifier of youth and a glaring reminder that just because the children are the future, it doesn't mean they want to be.
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" Calling the "jolly clown" a "historical anomaly," Sadie Stein writes, "We are clearly witnessing the last gasp of the clown as a phenomenon, as opposed to the clown as a signifier.
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HBO's melodrama, which concluded its second season on July 21, loves to depict its female stars in motion — a signifier of their refusal to yield to the forces conspiring to control them.
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Pragmatic, textile-driven design, social media acumen, and supply-chain savvy made Outlier a darling of nerdy, direct-to-consumer technical menswear and an I-see-you signifier among Silicon Valley types.
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This is the story of the rise of aspirational wholesomeness, and the word's slow transformation from stale signifier of evangelical morality in the '90s and 2000s to trendy buzzword in the 2010s.
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The crunch of broken glass is a common signifier in their work, as are unpredictable kick drum barrages and synthetic sounds that feel more like metal scraping metal than familiar club melodies.
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Placing new spins on familiar pieces is a major signifier of both the Off-White brand and Abloh's method: "It's like taking a Yankees logo and flipping it upside down," he says.
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In this, the later stage of their respective careers, engagement with high art has emerged as a crucial signifier, one beyond music, or fashion or other more conventional displays of material wealth.
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After collaborating on each other's projects for the better part of five years, Cudi's departure from G.O.O.D Music in 2013 was the signifier that their sibling-like rivalry had reached a boiling point.
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In the cemetery of Todos Santos, American flags are painted on more than a dozen tombs, a signifier in most cases that the money to build the structures came from the United States.
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He may have given us the single glove as signifier, but he also understood the power of a well-placed pleat — especially before he began disappearing into the world of his own imagination.
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The team released the $35 case in December 2017, and it remains a best-seller that's turned into a signifier for models, wannabe influencers, and Instagram users who post on social media regularly.
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But, by turning these artists' styles into spectacle, Beyoncé flattens the specificity of their approach, and politics quickly becomes a mere signifier in the show, instead of a point of interest or debate.
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Twitter has confirmed that it 'accidentally' pushed an 'experiment around replies' to all iOS users, removing the conventional username signifier from the start of replies and making usernames no longer count toward character limit.
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Loving pizza has long been a universal signifier of being down-to-earth, that despite someone's toned body or expensive vacations, they too enjoy the cheap and caloric combination of sauce, cheese, and bread.
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Perhaps the most classic signifier of Los Angeles in the American imagination is the automobile, once considered a solution (unreliable, overfilled streetcars!) to the very problem it's created (congestion, crowding — not to mention pollution).
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Rather, the Pink Moon's name is a signifier of spring: The nickname comes from a plant called moss pink or wild ground phlox — one of the first spring flowers, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
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But lately, high-end watchmakers like Tudor, Panerai, IWC and Zenith have repositioned it as a signifier of luxury: a head-turning alternative to stainless steel or gold that is brimming with retro allure.
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As the "witch aesthetic" becomes more popular as a cultural signifier — blending '70s-era New Age spirituality with left-wing activism and, at times, performative rebellion — Salem has become something of a hipster haven.
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If Ms. Hutchinson has her way — she will receive a verdict on her emoji proposal in January — the high heel as a signifier of femininity will soon be going the way of the dinosaur.
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But in the context of What Does It All Mean think pieces scattered throughout the media, it was too easy to label each series as a massive signifier for The Way We Live Today.
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But there was an ugliness in what became a narrative arms race, with its own clichés; for creators, merely showing violent misogyny, however shoddily, sometimes seemed to double as a signifier of artistic seriousness.
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The majority of my films have been fronted by African-American actors and actresses, but that is now no longer the signifier that it once was, that that's only for people who look like that.
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The Southside is a signifier that gives people a general idea of where you're from, but you have to fill in the gaps with specific details about your neighborhood, and in some cases, your block.
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A signifier that a disease that would end the life of one of America's finest runners was working its wretched ways inside a body that was moving as fast as few others had moved before.
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In ancient Egypt, as in so many cultures, only well-born boys learned writing, and whether used as a branding tool of church and state or as a signifier of privilege, script is never neutral.
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The shift in her characterization complicates her status as a cultural signifier: What does a "mother of dragons" wine glass mean in a world where the first of her name might be a big bad?
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"Decades of Gatorade commercials weren't lying about sweat as key signifier of an idealized 'hustle,'" offered Dan Chamberlain at the Cut, noting that O'Rourke had, as of mid-October, raised $38.1 million in three months.
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Be careful, though, because whether you drove, flew or took the train, the conversation could easily veer into a debate between cousins about whether the way cars function as a signifier of wealth is problematic.
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It may seem like a mere lark and a laugh, but we get the joke precisely because, as a consumer product, the Prius has become a signifier of virtue in the vernacular of popular culture.
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D'où une deuxième explication à la folle campagne actuelle: elle viendrait signifier la crise des institutions et l'épuisement d'une Constitution taillée sur mesure par le Général de Gaulle qui ne correspond plus aux temps présents.
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And finally, there's that lingering close up on Ofmatthew's body being dragged away, that shot that has nothing to do with Ofmatthew as a person and everything to do with Ofmatthew as a signifier of horror.
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Shown along with "Rharian Plain" it is clear that she has had a longstanding concern with the space within which a brushstroke is both itself (a smear or splatter of paint) and a signifier (the forest).
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He was, if anything, a master signifier, the Shakespeare of linguistic pugilism, using his words to counterpunch his opponents, well before they stepped in the ring: Now Liston disappears from view, The crowd is getting frantic.
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She sympathized with a poet who played the devil's advocate, saying some admiring things about a figure—"he-who-shall-not-be-named"—that now represents the ultimate taboo, the ultimate signifier of guilt and innocence.
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And just as the "Alphabet" series would riff on advertising's assaultive, screaming billboards that became a default visual signifier of the American landscape, Held's brush strokes can seem to anticipate graffiti's fervent squiggles and ecstatic physicality.
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Such labeling would include some kind of signifier, like a purple dot noting that the tweet is prompted by a political account, according to a potential mockup the company included in a post announcing the changes.
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Such labeling would include some kind of signifier, like a purple dot noting that the tweet is prompted by a political account, according to a potential mockup the company included in a post announcing the changes.
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Geberit, which also makes pipes and other products used by plumbers, is seen as a signifier for the health of the broader construction industry with its products used in new-build as well as refurbishment projects.
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One former sex worker, who requested not to be named, says she doesn't trust any politician because they have never cared for their community, but added that the presence of Piñeros is a signifier of change.
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No matter how Kelly's show pans out — failure or success — this clip went viral and will stand as either a milestone from which Kelly will only improve or the signifier that this was never going to work.
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As soon as Taylor Swift said "This Sick Beat" and the public identified it as something she says — a signifier that a product with those words on it would be coming from her — it was a trademark.
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Much like owning an actual bed frame or having a designated shelf to keep alcohol bottles instead of haphazardly storing them on top of kitchen cabinets, having slippers for my guests felt like a signifier of adulthood.
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The app identifies your location and uses your phone's camera (through a QR code or another signifier) to display an augmented reality animation over various views of the statue you're looking at with additional or alternative content.
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It doesn't help that the show doesn't tell us — the only signifier we have is "The Plain Dealer" inked below Freska's signed name — but in a way it also doesn't matter; the drawing retains an uncanny resonance.
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In a digital space, where often the only visible signifier of gender is a byline (not a reliable indicator, and in any case probably skimmed over), the question of how to be visible by leaving is pretty murky.
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It is a signifier for those who believe America was great during some point in the past they dare not name, knowing if they do, it would reveal a time when it was worse for people of color.
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The Colorado department overseeing the Division of Motor Vehicles decided to make the change in order to align its practices with two recent court cases in Colorado that ruled in favor of the gender signifier, the Post reported.
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The much-debated body mass index, or BMI — a measurement whose signifier of health has been widely disputed, as it does not take into account individual physiques — will be part of the consideration for models older than 16.
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Even though most of his subjects were African Americans, many of his photographs are not "about race," only in the since that a black body is almost always a racial signifier in ways that white bodies are not.
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Pharaohs' Facial Hair Ancient Egyptians were big fans of full-body hair removal, as they believed it was a signifier of hygiene and cleanliness — and we still use some of the methods they pioneered today, including waxing and sugaring.
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Many of the allegations claimed in the docuseries have been public knowledge for over two decades, but if the attention (and sudden popularity in his music) says anything, it's a signifier that 2019 might be a long year ahead.
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Bacon Defender is a terrifically fun and very difficult game, one that asks players to zap fecal matter that plunges from the sky, a visual signifier meant to emulate how readily literal shit can get on your precious meat.
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The dual implication of the signifier can be amusing or annoying, depending on one's relationship with wrestling, but an examination of the history of the sport reveals that the division between sport and entertainment wrestling was never terribly clear.
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I only saw Real Ali when he was being used as montage fodder, a signifier of either defiance, playfulness, resilience, or victory, depending on whether I was being sold a sports drinks, life insurance, or a new ESPN network.
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At an airport reception room, Mr. Kim, who is about three times Ms. Kim's age, asked her to sit first, a reversal of the tradition of deferring to elders that was seen as a signifier of Ms. Kim's status.
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Updates These days the crossed double-G pattern found on the canvas bags of elite travelers is less a signifier of Guccio Gucci, the founder of the venerable Italian house, than it is a marker of luxury and status.
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"The National Film Registry is probably the most important signifier of films of importance that we have in America," Dennis Doros, a board member and co-founder of Milestone Films and president of the Association of Moving Image Archivists,, told Refinery29.
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But if chaos is what Mr Trump's most ferocious insurgents seek, and if it serves as a signifier of authenticity to the base upon which the legislators' electoral fortunes stand, then chaos is a price they will accept, for now.
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No matter which coast (or state in between) you call home, spring is a signifier that warmer days and easier living are on the horizon, bringing forth the inevitable itch to snap out of hibernation and back into jet-setting mode.
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It was the ultimate signifier/signified relationship – a system of signification that would titillate even the driest of semiologists, and pave the way for the language used by Catch-as-Catch-Can wrestlers or Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioners centuries later.
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Later that same year, Galleria Azul in Albuquerque falsely informed an undercover federal agent that a cloud symbol stamped on a Native American style ring made in the Philippines was a signifier that it was a product of the Navajo Tribe.
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Plot twists and surprises aside, this is in many ways a pretty standard slasher-in-the-woods story, and it can use every unique signifier it can get, from the central couple to the memorable performances to the moody musical interludes.
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The only signifier of the party is a glowing, ten-foot neon pyramid with no signage, and the event space is a labyrinth of bridges and enclaves snaking around the cenote, with two stages tucked into clearings on either side.
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This skill situates him within a lineage of French artists going back to 18th-century portraitists like Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, for whom fashion was a signifier, yes, but also an opportunity to present bravura technique in paint.
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B.E.: When dealing with the racial and cultural politics of the refugee you have used the metaphor "setting fears afloat" to emphasize how the refugee has become the signifier upon which many of our contemporary fears and anxieties are projected.
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And it was only after I had Lucy and got so many congratulations and tiny baby onesies as gifts and invitations to new mom groups that I realized: There's no signifier that marks you as someone who has lost your mother.
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Instead of segregating these cultural contributors into an unofficial class removed from the indigenous population, "The British Library" functions as a signifier whereby the contributions of immigrants have played a distinctive role in developing the cultural richness of a country's history.
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She knows her own name is a signifier of her Afro-Latinx identity; "Emma," on the other hand, "is the kind of name that didn't tell you too much before you met her, the way mine does," Emoni tells us.
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And what better way to emphasize the seriousness of his faith than to translate it into the very serious form of opera, an easy signifier of dazzling spectacle that also connotes old-fashioned substance and significance: something lavish, but also earnest.
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Though we get some telling glimpses into his family life (I love how his mom is always feeding him sliced fruit, no matter how annoyed she is), his ethnicity feels more of a signifier of multi-culti cool than anything else.
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In his latest column, he offers recipes for each holiday, and reflects on how a meal can be "the bridge between generations and the signifier of a story" that allows us to connect personally with history, and make our own.
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After a couple of years in which dancehall became just another empty signifier in American pop (especially as filtered through the brief reign of tropical house), there is some irony that Afrobeats is getting its spotlight through a Caribbean lens.
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A year and a half after Inouye left, the Taiwanese computer giant Acer bought the company for $710 million, and while the brand lives on today, the cow spots are basically the only signifier of what the firm once was.
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The band supports his ranting with guitars playing a modified omnibus progression (the musical signifier for shit going down) before ricocheting like stray bullets towards the end and coming to a dead stop, as though a power cord was yanked out.
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Ramona Xavier's 230 album Floral Shoppe distorted 280s pop and old smooth jazz, and her retro net-art aesthetic, presented as kitsch, has a become canonical vaporwave signifier, extended and reinterpreted by later acts like 2 8 1 4 and Death's Dynamic Shroud.wmv.
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It seems as though now, when to kink-shame is to reveal oneself as laughably prudish, a leather harness on a straight male celebrity is both the signifier of a more open and accepting society but also one that's become increasingly homogenous.
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"It is a really great signifier of how far we've come since the last round," Tristan Thomas, Monzo's head of marketing, told CNBC, adding that the bank has also doubled its customer count to more than 2 million since the last round.
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What the study did was find some similarities between those with depression and the way they post photos, so with this kind of accuracy, Reece and Danforth hope that they've found another signifier that people can use when seeing if someone has depression.
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Lastly, shop-bought gourmet cupcakes are a sure signifier of modern good taste and disposable income; another attribute which makes them appealing to women in particular, who still make most of the spending decisions when it comes to household, and particularly kitchen, matters.
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Hall, Rae, and Martin are all virtuosic comedians, and it's great to see three black actresses in the middle of a big Hollywood comedy that takes for granted that it's perfectly normal, not a signifier of "niche" entertainment, that they're the leads.
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There is a tremendous amount of social science suggesting that partisan identity in the United States today has become a kind of master cultural signifier: Being a member of good standing in your social group requires being on the right political team.
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The video pulls together every "low culture" signifier––the muscle car, the stripper heels, the bikie Daddy––in the hope that together, they would lend some kind of authenticity to a track that's ultimately a Nokia 7650 photo of a photocopy of Blackness.
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Mostly, brands appear in books because the author is adding texture to the story and using the brand as a signifier to do it: This kind of character shops at this kind of store; this kind of character uses this kind of phone.
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Today, it's a Silicon Valley term for start-ups valued at over $1 billion, a signifier of self-acceptance (not to mention a symbol for LGBTQ pride) and a go-to marketing leitmotif — whether in the guise of self-care or unabashed kitsch.
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Designers had flirted with sneakers before, including Yohji Yamamoto and Rick Owens, but because this was Mr. Lagerfeld, who does nothing halfway, and because this was couture — the fanciest, most elitist kind of fashion — the choice was taken as a major cultural signifier.
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She is a signifier of a certain kind of literary chic: If you read Sally Rooney, the thinking seems to go, you're smart, but you're also fun — and you're also cool enough to be suspicious of both "smart" and "fun" as general concepts.
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In China, the iPhone is as much a status signifier as a useful device, and analysts argue that many have put off buying a new iPhone until this year, with the hope that the latest model will look different enough to be noticed.
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But where prom is sometimes framed as a signifier of impending adulthood or a chance to rocket the action forward with grand romantic gestures, "The Party Favor" flips the script by having the show's characters backslide into the worst versions of themselves.
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The other part comes from the production—which isn't anything special, but has that bounce and pop when played through good headphones or speakers; the grand signifier that tries to convince the listener what they're hearing is a turn up in excellence.
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As long as one is dealing with a simple written text, online translation tools will get better at replacing one "signifier"—the name Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure gave to the idea that a sign's physical form is distinct from its meaning—with another.
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US groups like MGMT and Parquet Courts and Unknown Mortal Orchestra have also released remix albums this year, and UK act Alt-J has followed suit – one other signifier of how bands have cottoned on to how streaming works, how to play the game.
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It's a one-word life-style signifier that has come to evoke a number of contemporary trends: a renewed interest in the American road trip, a culture of hippie-inflected outdoorsiness, and a life free from the tyranny of a nine-to-five office job.
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Like Fett, the Mandalorian is a bounty hunter who never removes his armor; here, where he's in the hero's role, his ever-present helmet upends the usual "Star Wars" dichotomy in which the facelessness of the Empire's troops is a simple signifier of evil.
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To me, that has always been a signifier of something "good": something that takes a while to bury you within its nuances, something rich and satisfying; not something you want to rinse and spit out almost immediately once it becomes stale and starts to sour.
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The figure below shows the history of appearances before congressional committees (and subcommittees) by women's organizations, defined as a group that had a female signifier in its name, or whose membership was predominantly female, or which was oriented around women's rights or well-being.
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In the end, the only markers of Mia's success are that she's wearing a nice dress, gets recognized in the coffee shop where she used to work, and — in the most maddening signifier of "having it all" — she comes home to a man and a baby.
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Moving beyond the fact that heels have been a part of men's and women's wardrobes since the Dark Ages — and were once a signifier of superiority and class — the great Men In Heels debate has somehow maintained its steam despite the hypocrisy that's wedged between both arguments.
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Drenched in layers of post-punk, goth rock, new wave, and every other blistering signifier for brooding, contemplative indie rock, Happy Ending—which Noisey is premiering today—attempts to laugh at the pain and re-possess a struggle taken from them by late capitalism's grubby little paws.
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Coming as a shock to his legion of die-hard fans who may have pegged his words as a signifier that he'd be stepping back from releasing music entirely—today we can all rest easy, as he's just dropped his first track in around three years.
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That slight was made all the more obvious by the fact that Brown also was a presenter the following night at the Latin Grammys, an awards show for music he doesn't perform in a language that he only slightly speaks — a signifier of his broad appeal.
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Sadly for Mr. Glaser, Jeff Bridges undid much of his hard work two decades later, with his Dude character in "The Big Lebowski" seizing on a similar sofa-throwish cardigan — also known as the Westerley cardigan, by Pendleton — as a signifier of sunbaked, aging-hipster dissolution.
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Plants long forbidden in tasteful circles — tropicals like birds of paradise, protea, palm fronds and monstera leaves; cheap romance-and-restaurant stalwarts like tea roses, carnations and baby's breath; and even that overused signifier of banal good taste, the orchid — are all being lovingly and brazenly revived.
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Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, "Uncut Gems" takes place in Manhattan's diamond district circa 183, a strange moment in time when The Weeknd (who has a small cameo in the film) was a budding superstar and Apple's iPhone 5 was a signifier of financial excess.
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DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH Chris Brightman, chief investment officer at Research Affiliates, argues that ever more extreme monetary policy and negative real rates have undermined government debt's role as the signifier of the risk-free rate, a concept at the heart of both portfolio construction and security valuation.
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As quizzes have become a lucrative option for online publishers, they've also a signifier of self, as indicative of who we are as the profile pictures we choose, the music we publicly listen to on Spotify, or even what kind of bath towels we just bought on Amazon.
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However, the "atmospheric black metal" signifier doesn't quite fit, nor does straightforward "melodic black metal;" while the album is steeped in what we've come to accept as the hallmarks of modern USBM, reducing Dying Light to a cut-and-dried Bandcamp tag would do it a great disservice.
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Arts | Connecticut It was, of course, only a matter of time, and that time has arrived: In "Sex With Strangers," Laura Eason's delightful two-person play at TheaterWorks in Hartford, a laptop, clunky and antiquated, has gone from being a signifier of the newest technology to a sight gag.
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The monthlong festival, at La MaMa's East Village theaters through Sunday, has included four evening-length works and one triple bill, exploring topics like dance as a signifier of national identity (Adham Hafez's "To Catch a Terrorist") and the struggles of aging (Ellen Fisher's "Time Don't Stop for Nobody").
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Orchestral swells are a tried and true signifier of open-hearted emoting, and A Moon Shaped Pool embraces that tradition right off the bat with "Burn the Witch" (which feels like Bernard Herrmann scoring an episode of Gumby), and through much of the rest of the record's 52-minute runtime.
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I prefer artists who, like me, use paint rather than make paintings, if you get my drift: artists whose materials and processes have a contextual and conceptual appropriateness; who are fully aware of the relationship between signifier and the signified and who are open to multiple readings of their work.
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The totems of the line are still rooted in almost-classic suiting and shirting, but never without a discreet signifier of willful rebellion: a pinstripe button-down's sleeve's hidden slashes, a pair of navy wool schoolboy shorts piped with leopard print; pleated black pants at once inflated, cropped and tapered.
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The first accusations came out on Twitter after Franco wore a "Time's Up" pin — a signifier of solidarity with the recently invigorated movement to end sexism and abuse in Hollywood — to the Golden Globes on Sunday night, where he won Best Actor for his portrayal of Tommy Wiseau in the The Disaster Artist.
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Yet the moment Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is offered the rare treat by Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), the wife of her commander (Joseph Fiennes), we are reminded that the cookie, and all of the things that add to the surface-level beauty in The Handmaid's Tale, is a signifier of something much more sinister.
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A more subtle signifier of time is a cheeky shot of both women rocking "The Dress," the Tumblr picture turned internet-wide debate that spawned surprisingly intense arguments over whether the dress was black and blue or white and gold: Clearly, Abbi and Ilana picked their sides in this unholy battle of perception.
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The inclusion of music by Stucky (who died in February) in the Biennial, curated this time by the Philharmonic's music director, Alan Gilbert, along with its composer-in-residence, Esa-Pekka Salonen, is a signifier for the prominent position that American music now holds in the wide-ranging festival that Gilbert inaugurated two years ago.
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In a piece on Jordan Wolfson's "Colored Sculpture" (2016) he wrote: The white body, through its repetition in a history of art that is largely painted white itself, has become an easy and lazy signifier for a universal body, for a metaphorical body, one that becomes symbolic and slippery, that can always be more than its mere representation.
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Because of the change in accessibility, the tee became a signifier of your cultural associations: From the tie-dye-wearing Woodstock hippies to the rock 'n' roll fans who wore the now-iconic tongue and lips tee created by John Pasche for The Rolling Stones, the garment was no longer just functional — but a way to make a statement.
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She and Bloody Hour co-founder Dana Etgar hope to also address some concerns that the first event raised, about whether the bar should find a way to include members of the trans community, and how best to combat the idea that menstruation (or lack of menstruation) as a biological function is somehow a signifier of womanhood or femininity.
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The great fleece freak-out of 2019 — the days of crazed excitement around the idea that Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company, was sticking it to Wall Street and Silicon Valley by refusing to make any more of the branded fleece vests that had become a banker signifier — began, as many confused news cycles do, with a tweet.
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It's almost as if you think that because those numbers come from the Association of American Publishers, they might indicate something rather different from the death of the e-book; they might be a signifier of the rise of smaller publishers not tracked by the AAP, and/or, the growth of online reading via eg Wattpad or Amazon's Kindle Unlimited.
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He argues that Mallarmé's transcendence of conventional poetics, his spatio-temporal gyrations, his yearning efforts to collapse signifier and signified, his wish to erase all boundaries between word, idea, and object, as well as between art and life, paved the way for innovative Modernist thought and practice in literature, music, visual art, philosophy, modern physics, and even prefigured aspects of today's digital era.
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For generations a signifier of upwardly mobile gentility and often paired with the company's devoutly traditional china settings depicting English country life, jasperware now seems irredeemably stodgy-sweet, its appeal to all but the most rigorous collector diminished by its ubiquity: Go to the mall, and you too can pick up a brand-new picture frame decorated with a bas-relief Cupid.
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But "Refugee" is a better signifier of what made Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers so notable at the time, and what's made both them and this song endure: the classic melodic rock 'n' roll in its bones, down to its AABA structure, and the way it's not beholden to the New Wave and punk stylings that defined much of American rock music at that time.
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By placing "free speech" in quotation marks and arguing that it is really a floating signifier, a stand-in for a very different argument about who controls and who can access the public square and the spheres of political power in America, Moskowitz has posed a pretty vital question: How can you speak freely when you don't know what you're talking about in the first place?
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Sheer simplicity, your average continental lager is both beautiful—those deep yellows and pissy oranges, that bright line of white foam that crests atop the ochre wave—and, just as importantly, a signifier of the fact that while you might be clad in over-priced workwear, conducting a obnoxiously loud conversation about the ins-and-outs of new media, you are still just a normal guy.
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Whether he is technically the front-runner or not depends on how you assess the impressive poll numbers of the undeclared Joe Biden: Are those a real signifier that the Democratic Party's moderate wing is ready to have the former vice president as its champion, or just an artifact of name recognition that will collapse once Biden starts having to answer for his record?
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But Erizku's series isn't merely a re-contextualization of a commercial signifier placed into an art space; each iteration of the rose has its typically white hand transformed into a different shade of brown, an act that reveals yet another example of "white as default" cultural practice, one that is particularly strange when considering how nail salons are operated by non-white individuals and servicing often non-white clientele.
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The single biggest signifier of adulthood, at least when it comes to clothing, is not any single style of garment but the condition of them all: whether they are spotted, stained, wrinkled, torn and so on; whether they are missing a button, look as if they have been dropped on the floor, crumpled up in a corner, shoved to the back of the drawer; or any of the other telltale signs that the wearers expect someone else to tidy up for them.
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She understood that through the visual of relentless sameness, she could immediately grant herself a signifier that set her apart, that acted as shorthand for her own presence and that hinted at the Silicon Valley values of the mind: the belief, beloved by figures like Mr. Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, that wearing the same kind of clothes every day frees the intellect from having to make pesky dressing decisions and thus opens up more cerebral space for making the kind of choices that really matter.
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But the male absence felt more like a signifier of masculine failure than feminine empowerment: After a lecture from an older gay man about how large a father's absence can loom, Hannah tried to involve the father in the baby's life, and he ducked out pathetically; the offers from other men to help raise the child dissolved, and what remained as the show ends was a kind of informal and fractious matriarchy — Hannah and a friend and her mother off Upstate with her infant son, like a tribe of refugees waiting for civilization to reform.
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And now, just as the UFC is settling into life under the rule of its news owners—Hollywood talent agency WME—pushing a new $4-billion age of product-integration and cleaned-up corporate cross-pollination aimed at turning MMA fighters into multicultural spokesmen/actors/musicians/brands—true ambassadors of the new age of globalized cosmopolitan sophistication and synergy—along comes the Professional Fighters League taking MMA back to its humble roots and reveling in that most stubbornly American of partnerships, one where a Pennzoil cap is as powerful a signifier as a cameo in a Hollywood blockbuster.
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