From all of us here at Full Stop Magazine, here’s wishing for happy end-of-year festivities to all of our readers.
“Grandma, what are your thoughts on the de-democratizing pressures of neoliberalism?”
Spending time with your family needn’t be a source of enervation. Instead you can use this interval as a period of study and take holiday gatherings as an opportunity to radicalize your relatives.
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.