Society
61 public collections on Loreline.
Documentaries
- GamblingWagering as an architecture, from knucklebones and dice to loot boxes. The games and the rooms they are played in: cards, casinos, Las Vegas, Macau, the slot machine from the Liberty Bell onward, pachinko parlours, bookmakers and the racecourse, poker, and the move online. Alongside them the forms that are not legally gambling but work the same way on the same reward circuitry, and which children meet first: the booster pack as a randomised purchase, Pokemon and football stickers, card breaking, the claw machine and the coin pusher, the fairground and the seaside arcade, loot boxes and gacha and skin markets. Then the advertising and shirt sponsorship that carry all of it, the regulators and courts that have ruled on it, and what the research says about harm. Findings are cited as findings and allegations as allegations; the industry's own language for itself appears only in quotation.
- Beauty StandardsWhat counted as beautiful, where, and who decided. Kohl and wigs in Egypt, the Greek canon of proportion, fuller figures prized in Tang China, blackened teeth and redrawn brows in Heian Japan, coiffure as social language across West Africa, scarification, henna, tatau and moko, cranial shaping in Mesoamerica. Then lead white and Venetian ceruse, the corset and the campaigns against it, cinema and the pin-up, pageants and the protests outside them, the modelling industry, dieting, cosmetic surgery, injectables, and the filtered face of the present. It carries the harm as part of the record: the poisonings, the bound feet, the mercury in lightening creams, the findings and who made them. Beauty standards are not one story told from one place, and the archive is built so that the comparison is visible. Where a claim is contested it is attributed to whoever made it.
Segments
- Harm
- Lootboxes
- Lightening
- Pokemon
- Gerewol
- Empire
- Advertising
- Coiffure
- Skincare
- Documentation
- Lotteries
- Packs
- Fairs
- Footbinding
- Machines
- Gacha
- Cranial
- Dice
- Regulation
- Stickers
- Corsetry
- Cosmetics
- Pageants
- Ceruse
- Filters
- Pachinko
- Sponsorship
- Filters
- Injectables
- Racing
- Natural Hair
- Kohl
- Casinos
- Vegas
- Heian
- Online
- Antiquity
- Claws
- Tatau
- Reform
- Surgery
- Arcades
- Documentation
- Dieting
- Moko
- Scarification
- Cards
- Cinema
- Bookmakers
- Poker
- Models
- Macau
- Breaks
- Portraiture
- Wigs
- Salons
- Henna
- Tang
- Skins