BY RON BROGLIOAssistant professor of English and senior scholar of the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University I sat down to write this blog entry but the day got away from me. The morning began with me discussing the death of a beached whale with an artist working on the grammars of touch … More Writing amid the difficulty of reality
BY ANKE FINGERAssociate professor of German studies and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut In an essay titled “The New Imagination” (1990), Vilém Flusser emphasizes the need for a “critique of image criticism” – and he considered letters to be images as well. He writes: “The linear gesture of writing tears the pixels from … More New media and old philosophy: What would Vilém Flusser think about e-books?
Media theorist, artist, and novelist Mark Amerika explores the book as a live, “liquid” object and uncovers its potential beyond the printed word. Today, he discusses his own research-and-perform methodology as well as a sampling of remix projects that utilize the works of Jack Kerouac, Jacques Derrida, and Sol Lewitt, among others. BY MARK AMERIKACult … More Mark Amerika: The art of literary mashup
A 2008 neighborhood sign reads “North Hampton is a Domestic Violence-Free Zone.” Carisa Showden points out that in situations of relationship violence, agency must be shared with concerned others. Image from Creative Commons. BY CARISA R. SHOWDENAssistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro In its May 2011 issue, Glamour … More "Glamour" has it wrong; to tackle relationship violence, one must take agency as a victim (and no, the two terms are not mutually exclusive).
In his book Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema, author Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute … More Todd McGowan: The Timeless Christopher Nolan
Actors Steven Yeun (from left, “Glenn”) and Andrew Lincoln (“Rick Grimes”) struggle to survive an undead apocalypse in AMC’s The Walking Dead. The author wishes to thank Mark Heimermann and Michael Lang for introducing him to the series. BY PETER Y. PAIKAssociate professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of From … More Zombies and Other Strangers: Thoughts on Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead
Parenthood has been an important part of Obama’s presidency. Photograph courtesy of Creative Commons. BY BRIAN DUFFAssistant professor of political science at the University of New England Parenthood plays a central role in the way citizens and politicians think about politics. Take this example: two years ago George W. Bush met with Barack Obama at … More The Politics of Parenthood
The following is a guest post from Andrea Gibbons, co-editor at the journal CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. CITY‘s current issue features leading urban theorist Edward Soja and his most recent book, Seeking Spatial Justice (Minnesota 2010), in which Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution … More CITY feature: Edward W. Soja and justice struggles in the contemporary world.
Sharon Irish holds a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and the Community Informatics Initiative/Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. She is the author of Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between (Minnesota, 2010) and Cass Gilbert, Architect: Modern Traditionalist. *Title is an ode to Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, … More The Monstrous Feminine*: Lady Gaga in a Meat Dress
Scholar J. Kameron Carter looks at the problem of political theology as he sees it within Peter Y. Paik’s book From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe.
