Euston Manifesto (1)
After years of accepting and even supporting an unclear and often unthoughtout ideology rooted in…
Euston Manifesto (2)
After years of accepting and even supporting an unclear and often unthoughtout ideology rooted in…
Rust simulating decay
Let me begin by saying that one way of understanding Baudrillard is to…
Television (NCIS)
Many of the new shows on television this season deal with terrorism, heroism and…
Television (the grid)
Many of the new shows on television this season deal with terrorism, heroism and…
Television (the unit)
Many of the new shows on television this season deal with terrorism, heroism and…
The Frontiers of Our Dreams Are No Longer The Same* (2)
Aquin wanted a total ‘national revolution’. He wanted to rebuild Quebec society from the bottom up…
The Frontiers of Our Dreams Are No Longer the Same (1)*
It was an overcast day in 1977 when the great writer and Quebec nationalist, Hubert Aquin, committed suicide…
The Age of Six feet under (2)
In today's New York Times, Joan Didion describes her shock and grief at the sudden death of…
The Age of Six feet under (1)
The title of this blog entry is also the title of a new book that I am developing for the University of Chicago Press.
Learning From Pop Culture (1)
Steven Johnson's new book Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter popularizes an argument…
Learning From Pop Culture (2)
Chris makes the following point: "What strikes me about these debates is that…
Hypochondriac Culture (1)
What happens when the boundaries between the artificial and the natural break down?
Hypochondriac Culture (2)
Hypochondria is an insidious disease because it is a silent and often invisible part of the suffering of so many people
Hypochondriac Culture (4)
The reality is that people continue to eat as if their actions will produce no effect.
Hypochondriac Culture (6)
Imagine the following. There is a sudden change in your body temperature
The Value of Art
A recent study by the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism persuasively argues not only for the value of the arts to the health of our society, but…
