I’m one of several people who has been trying, for several months, to get Facebook to take down a page devoted to promoting the Ritual…
My critical animal work, and, more lately, my ecocritical and posthumanist work, has suffered from one giant fault–one you’re thinking of, I hope–namely its inconsideration of…
Cross posted to In the Middle. A couple of days ago, World News Daily gave us this: “USA: Viking Ship Discovered Near Mississippi River.” While…
Cross-posted on In The Middle. Go there to leave comments, if you want. Maybe you saw an article recently about renewed attempts to change the unpleasant name…
Gamora: And by the way… Your ship is filthy. Peter Quill: Filthy? She has no idea. If we had a blacklight, it would look like…
Back in America! If you read Minima Moralia before watching Captain America Winter Soldier Word Word on the flight, an essay drafts itself — Karl…
Cross-posted to ITM. I’m in Iceland for the New Chaucer Society Conference. Today’s papers concluded with a whale watch, expressly framed by the excursion group as…
Spoilers follow, if the plot is your thing, and if you, like me, haven’t read Georges Devereux’s Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian. Last…
I’m going to Iceland next week and staying there until the end of the month. To prepare, I read 38 sagas, histories, and assorted tales,…
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — a pro-establishment, rock-ribbed bastion of pro-market thinking — has released a report predicting a collapse in global…
