Sunday Reading
...Lost Forever Karamanli Culture in the Ottoman Empire: Hybridity, Identity and Ethnicity [podcast] Why Hindi and cryptic crosswords do not mix Broken Letters: A Typogeography of Europe Reorienting Heritage: Poetic...
Sunday Reading
...Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace America's Failed Promise of Equal Opportunity Pity the Landlord A lack of a culture war truce in one graph: 10 Thoughts About the...
Lonely and crying
...seemed to temporarily change everything about culture, the group is sometimes mistakenly regarded as nothing more than falsetto-wielding disco appropriators. But before that, the Bee Gees had a long, successful...
Sunday Reading
...Us Free" ReclaimUC: Why college rape survivors don't go to the police Student debt grows faster at universities with highest-paid leaders The one percent at state U A history from...
Trigger Warning Week
...means, and what we think it means. As a culture, we still refuse collectively to accept that most rapes are committed by ordinary men, men who have friends and families,...
The Loves of Others
...not have met, and had they not met each other, each would have met someone else, and that would have been a love story too. How-we-met stories teach us two...
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
...become a birdwatcher, starting by noticing the most common birds around a person’s home, then listening to their various songs, and finally making this observation a part of daily life....
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...in scopophilia, and we’re very near sighted as a culture because of it. Thinking about your epigraphs, from Mishima and Kathy Acker, did you ever consider yourself a novelist? And...
Sunday Reading
...place.” Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com The Burden of Debt on Black Families Technology and the Apocalypse in American Culture “However popular dowsing may be, the US Geological Survey takes pains...
The Great Leap Forward
...on the cultural landscape, it indiscriminately sucks into its vortex the signs, icons, and golden calves of both high and low culture, strips them of original contexts to repurpose and...
Where is the Line Between Us?
...of their county, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics. I proudly offer this...
Violent Motion, 1
...align it with a certain tendency in screen culture that came to dominate economically. That tendency, beginning in the first decades of the twentieth century, is for commercially-produced moving images...
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...or even uncannily predicting certain developments in mass culture, therefore confirming its assessment of its own present and trendlines. Prescient how? A sketch of the rest of the show’s narrative...
Sunday Reading
...Apologies to Vaughan; congrats to brief and to Tusi Tamasese The CBS Desiring Machine Best Movies of 2012 ReclaimUC: Let us eat cake! On the UC's new logo Free Cooper...
Heroines
...am not qualified to teach literature. Male professors with no interest in the subject teach women’s literature instead. I am reminded of my lack of a terminal degree. (Why does...
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two
...unwillingness to accept norms and codes, our aggressiveness against those who would teach us lessons, give us advice, watch over us, or are simply moronic. • For us the figure...