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…
Cross-posted to In the Middle: comment there or at the fb. Here’s a draft of my paper for the New Chaucer Society, which I’ll be…
It’s usual to besmirch the Middle Ages as a time of superstition and intolerance. That charge has some merit, so long as we remember that…
Cross posted to In the Middle, where you can comment; or find us on Facebook. Because the field’s so crowded, I’m reluctant to call the “Disputisoun…
Critics usually talk about Charlie Ahearn’s WILD STYLE (1983, filmed 1981/82) as a documentary of the moment when hiphop made contact with with the dominant, “downtown”…
