Fans in hysterics over the death of Michael Jackson or Kim Jong-il may conjure the closest primal echo of early mourning, but within the columns of newspapers and magazines, mourning most consistently resurrects former public rituals.
A Handy BookStalking Guide for 2012
Based on my experience book stalking this past year, I’d like to present a list of five types of readings that you should consider checking out.
A few sartorial gift guides inspired by Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
The End of Iraq and Innerlichkeit
There won’t be as much Liberal or Radical reexaminations of the sociological guts of this war. Nope. No Catch-22s or All Quiet on the Western Fronts. Instead, I think there will be a profound collapse into oneself.
Any Publicity Is Good Publicity? Yes. Maybe. Probably.
The term “trollgaze” describes Internet things that attract negative attention or, to put more directly, things you watch/read/listen to because you know they are going to be bad. The badness is what you came for.
Vaclav Havel, Writer/Statesman
“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate.”
It’s a losing battle to argue that records ruined music, but the record industry did some collateral damage to oral traditions.
Maybe you have a right to enforce a synthetic “forgetfulness,” a public forgetfulness, onto the tyranny of your own electronically archived public past.
Gossip Girl, American Fever Dream
The audience is, like in all television, clearly voyeuristic, but the catch here is that we are also implied within the narrative: we are the loyal subjects to these young gods.
Glamorizing weapons and war is nothing new.