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Dreadful Marius 4 Jul 2013 | 08:21 am
Recent conversations about Marius, from Les Miserables, inspired me to compose the following ode to his character, or lack thereof. ......... .............. Huh? ......... .............. Oh. .....
The Unintentional Genius of Legally Blonde 16 Jun 2013 | 12:45 pm
Legally Blonde is genius. Stop rolling your eyes. I get the critique. Reese Witherspoon's character, Elle Woods, is a stereotypical--to the point of being a caricature--dumb blonde. Law school is equ...
Violent Questions for Christians 27 May 2013 | 12:25 pm
Since the end of the Civil War, each Memorial Day, our country and countrymen call us to honor the sacrifices of veterans who have lost their lives 'protecting our freedoms', our mythical 'fallen hero...
Faded Relations 7 Apr 2013 | 07:15 am
Famoso Inn (with swimming pool) by Jeff Brouws A fading swimming pool set amidst flourishing foliage. A fish-topped fountain, now inhaling musky air. A lone chair, overlooking a dried aquatic hotelsc...
Interstitial/Interview Teaser: Lewis Call 8 Jan 2013 | 06:53 am
Q: Your work on the intersection of post-structual political philosophy and anarchist theory led you, along with Saul Newman and Todd May, to develop a line of thinking that has come to be called 'pos...
Lightning Crashes in Newtown 19 Dec 2012 | 06:16 am
I grieve for--and with--the families of those slain in last Friday's Newtown massacre, especially the parents of the 20 schoolchildren who perished only days before the Christmas holidays. As images o...
CFP: Special Issue of Criticism on 'Critical Air Studies' 23 Nov 2012 | 09:11 pm
From the poetics of airborne perspectives to the halting grind of airport delays; from the politics of full body scanners to pressures on labor unions and massive corporate mergers; from narratives ab...
Object Criticism (Text) 13 Nov 2012 | 12:49 pm
To view the video that accompanies the following text, please visit: Object Criticism. First published in 1988, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses employs magical realist tropes to explore identity ...
Interstitial/Interview Teaser: Elizabeth Grosz 16 Oct 2012 | 12:01 pm
Here's a snippet from an interview with Elizabeth Grosz, to be published in the inaugural issue of Interstitial Journal (if you're interested in submitting, the deadline is December 31, 2012): Q: To ...
The Evolution of Anthrodecentrism 17 Sep 2012 | 11:37 am
A few weeks ago, Matthew Segall and I exchanged tweets about the origin of anthrodecentrism, object-oriented ontology's term from displacing human subjectivity from its post-Kantian position of philos...
