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Dropping the economic soap

Thursday, June 7, 2007

When pressed by my peers to give a precise explanation of my political leanings, I usually find myself at a loss. I’m part libertarian, but I have a strong charitable streak and a modicum of faith in public education systems. Somewhere deeper down, though, I don’t think that the problems we face today [...]

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Make yourself criticism-proof: become a critic!

Monday, March 12, 2007

The field of cultural theory started at an indefinite point in the not-so-distant past, somewhere during the period of the great debates over linguistic structuralism. Some might peg it on Barthes and his work on cultural mythologies. Others might cite Baudrillard’s study on the sociology of consumption. No matter where you put that point [...]

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