the weblog of Jesse Schwebach
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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In response to a few comments on my blog regarding the current state of global warming, I thought I’d approach this from a slightly different direction. My initial reaction to dissenters of global warming is a simple blow-off–I’ve found most of them to justify their positions with very few facts. To disbelieve evidence suggesting that [...]
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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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