Audiobook Anxiety and What Constitutes ‘Real’ Reading
Our cultural anxiety about audiobooks may have deeper roots in media and educational history, dating as far back as the beginning of the Enlightenment period, when the West made a…
What, Prithee, Is a Poetess?
…Although studies reliably find that women read more than men, when a book is written for and consumed by women, or made popular by women, it is seen again as…
The Inventor and The Thief / Snap Judgment, “Legacy”
This story is a pretty good example of how capitalism kills innovation and how the mob and capitalism work in very similar ways.
What Really Happens After Societal Collapse
This idea of what actually happens when things collapse is why studying the plague, the bronze age collapse, and the reformation have been giving me surprising solace. {read}
Zelda in Pet Sematary (1989) Revives Images of Family Repression
In Robin Wood’s renowned essay “The American Nightmare” he discusses the family as being the site of repression. His essay primarily focuses on how families limit expression of anything other…
How The White Establishment Waged A ‘War’ On Chinese Restaurants In The U.S.
In most American cities these days, it seems like there's a Chinese restaurant on every other street corner. But in the late 1800s, that ubiquity was exactly what certain white…
What kind of rights should it have?
This two pieces of media go well together. BBC Discovery “Can Robots Truly Be Intelligent?” and Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their…
The President’s Dog
the story of a good boy. A very good boy. Laddie Boy, the First Dog of the United States. A wonderful, charming terrier whom Americans loved even more than they…
Women Photographing Women
Feminist critic Laura Mulvey coined the term “male gaze” in 1975 to describe the ways in which women were objectified on camera when a man was behind the lens. In…
Beyond the Iron Curtain
Comrades! The USSR pioneered the craft of science fiction long before the decadent West. This is not an opinion - this is a scientific fact. Noted intellectuals Anindita Banerjee, Sibelan…