Josie BarboriakPrivileged Information: Reflections on the College Admissions ProcessIn the past two years, I’ve felt my life becoming a collection of useful and beautiful images. I spend early mornings on boats in the…Jan 310Jan 310
Josie BarboriakCareer, Impact, and Selfishness: Why is Everyone Going Into Consulting?with apologies to Marina Keegan, who wrote about this twelve years agoNov 2, 2023Nov 2, 2023
Josie BarboriakA Series of Poems That Could Have Been TweetsThese are mostly silly! Observations and musings et cetera. Not taking myself too seriously.Jul 24, 2023Jul 24, 2023
Josie BarboriakOn “A Parent’s Guide to Campus Tours” in the New YorkerAlyssa Brandt, in “A Parent’s Guide to Campus Tours,” riffs on a personage of the college tour guide who is aggressively hip and opposed to…Jul 7, 20231Jul 7, 20231
Josie BarboriakThe Sound of Silence: John Cage’s 4:33 As Herald and RebellionA packed auditorium, where a skilled pianist sits before his instrument. A gingerly creaking open of the lid, a flourish of the hands…Apr 30, 2023Apr 30, 2023
Josie BarboriakOn Love and Literary RepresentationThis graphic narrative was my final project for a college class which analyzes the merits of text as a medium. Hope you enjoy!Mar 13, 2023Mar 13, 2023
Josie BarboriakMeta-Meditation (or, Your Parents Doing Something Doesn’t Make It Permanently Dorky)Early one morning, I sat cross-legged on a small artificial hill. I’d been spurred on by a physics assignment to venture once again into…Jan 5, 2023Jan 5, 2023
Josie BarboriakThe Tyranny of Expectation: Marx, Durkheim, Hartmann on the Plight of the HousewifeThe housewife, the homemaker, the stay-at-home mother. Even in the 21st century, one in which egalitarian ideals are often preached, the…Dec 11, 2022Dec 11, 2022
Josie BarboriakConditioning the Gaze: Consumption, Perception, and Beauty in The Bluest EyeIs our perception truly our own? As we grow to adulthood, we often fail to question the origins of our worldviews and the ways in which…Dec 11, 2022Dec 11, 2022
Josie BarboriakPolitics, Aesthetics, and the Revolutionary Potential of Art: The Role of the Content AlgorithmHow does the modern mass-media content algorithm change the way we interact with art and the nature of the sentiments expressed within it…Dec 3, 2022Dec 3, 2022