Culture Industry

Last week I was perfectly reconciled to my role as bathgiver & putter-of-children-to-bed while J. worked her way thru a formidable progr...

No, I'm not really posting – for one thing, I'm stealing somebody's wireless right now, & I'm confined to Safari, which ...

Points northeast beckon – tho, thanks to Delta Airlines, they're beckoning some two hours later than originally planned. Happily, their ...

It’s worth checking out the comments box of a recent post on Incertus , a collective blog run by four of my colleagues at Our University. T...

“The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Deme...

Oh yes, lots of busyness within and outwith the household this past week, & oddly not moved to blog much. Which is okay, since my synaps...

For those of you ( Jessica among others) who want instant gratification – or at least as instant as 5-months-in-advance gratification can b...

The latest blog hiatus stems from a week-long trip to God’s Country (the Old Homestead) – an alright “vacation,” so to speak, tho I’ll be cl...

One begins with the notion of the ideal index, the key to all the book’s mythologies, the list that is itself a re-visioning of the book, a ...

Since no-one in the alt-poetry world has to my knowledge noted his passing, I’ll say a few things on behalf of the fine English poet Michael...

From the midst of a sea of letters & numbers, all to sorted into the right order: once again, Our University is in the news, and Univer...

Various views of the index: The Chicago Manual stance, in which the index is the indispensible tool for finding what you want to find, for ...

So we’re back from a long weekend away – the less said the better, a combination of great fun & some highly irritating moments & mor...

We leave tomorrow for a long weekend of "holiday," which as every parent of preschoolers knows involves much more labor than any t...

Somewhere in the sixties (the number, not the decade) I lose count of how many Michael Moorcock novels I’ve read. Most of them I consumed at...

Eric, who’s vowed that he won’t let Say Something Wonderful die, has posted a lovely little video of Allen Ginsberg singing “Father Death B...

That last entry looks a bit cranky, I guess, or a bit – as I think I said – ‘self-interested.’ But ‘erotic,’ as it’s defined on the dictiona...

Blurbage: “The erotic works of Alan Davies hold a unique place in contemporary literature. They do not focus on the fantasy of sex, underwea...

Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl (Soft Skull, 2003): "Final girl” theory, adumbrated by Jane Dark’s mum Carol Clover – the last woman left ...

Almost a week & a half into my own summer vacation, what for way too many of my colleagues is the first summer term – & aside from a...