Our Before and After
The pandemic has created a dividing line for our time, like many others in the past.We are living through ‘strange times’, as people keep saying – ‘unprecedented times’. In many…
How the Louvre Codified Essentialism in Art History
The art historical meta-narrative canonized by the Louvre Museum converts all artworks into specimens of their cultural moment. No wall tag can fix this.
Witch Trials are not Medieval
they happened in the early modern period
R.I.P. Lou Ottens, Creator of the Cassette Tape Dead at 94
Ottens specifically designed the cassette to be tiny enough to fit in a jacket pocket
The Cold War
World War 3
‘The Dig’ – Hiding Sutton Hoo’s women
My immediate impression after watching the film was to question why the three female leads were presented as a vulnerable, passive, with a dull ongoing focus on their fictional problems,…
ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba
They got knocked down. Did they ever get back up again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZr87g6rNo
Noam Chomsky Stumps Andrew Marr
I'm sure you believe everything you say
Foreign Affairs: Unrest continues for a seventh day in former British colony
Unrest and protests continued for a seventh straight day in the former British colony of the United States as the government vowed to use its military to end the demonstrations,…
Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent
Summary of Chomsky’s analyses on how the corporate media functions. Excerpt from the documentary “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media” (1992).