The Paradox of Progress
...called progress. Displayed alongside colonized and conquered peoples W.J.T. Mitchell gives a great overview about the multiple connections between dinosaur culture at the American frontier in The Last Dinosaur Book,...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.
Walter White Supremacy
...skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there's no competing with the only white guy in the room. These plots expect viewers to cheer while...
1983 - 1962
...from the back of slave-drawn carts, “letting everything else drop” meant that the crew had to kill an escaped stunt tiger to keep it from eating them, because cost-cutting kept...
Power, Public Life, and The Hunger Games
...Glimmer are primed to mercilessly kill, Foxface uses traditional female strengths of cunning and agility to advance in the game. Their adherence to femininity is secondary to their adherence to...
Consent
...To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it, but the act of pressing that button feels like...
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
...is credited with saying “Kill the Indian and save the man,” a rationale that would come to define attempted genocide disguised as assimilation. While most assume these schools closed in...
Fist to Brain
...and social conventions, and for Levinas it is therefore the basis for all ethics. He believes that the face, in its obvious vulnerability, says: you shall not kill. Boxing violates...
Fully Operational
...like something Will Smith would kill in a movie. It is mirrored, angular, black, and malevolently futuristic. Critics ranging from the New York Times to parents of NYU students, as...
Some Thoughts on Fruitvale Station, and No Angel
...they have killed, after all, which means it is (perversely) respect for the value of life that allows us to take life without moral penalty. A policeman can kill someone...
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...“Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to gain Cathy, but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. He would...
Fan Fiction
...engage culture from within. Our authors use fiction to explode boundaries. The criticism is coming from inside the house. In 1969, three female students at Freie Universität in Berlin disturbed...
Superman/Everyman
...and a teacher of self-seeking and individual right living. Kaufmann’s translations of Nietzsche’s major works, complete with their didactic footnoting, are still ubiquitous in affordable paperback editions in America today,...
Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 2
...In the back of my mind, I keep thinking about the things I've personally committed my life to, the choice I've made to pursue research, scholarship, and teaching on and...
#mybodymyhome (i)
...dismissed as “minor,” “trivial,” “irrelevant.” Hon. Duale’s colleague, Hon. Mulu, argued, “in the Kamba culture, there is nothing like sexual harassment when you are dealing with a wife or husband....
Labor Pains
...for surrogates to withdraw labor, to suspend production is to kill. The life-or-death entanglements of conception, birth, and kinship are thus a partially unenclosed commons, a source of joy yet...