Recent Columns

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Wednesday, December 10 2003

The Columnist in the Mousetrap

By Sam Vaknin

Agatha Christie's opus is a portrait of our age as it emerged, all bloodied and repellent, from the womb of the dying Victorian era.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Monday, December 1 2003

Bearing the Black Female Body as Witness in Sci-Fi

By Lynne d Johnson

(Uhura's) USS Starship Enterprise world was both multiculti and alien, which offered a familiarity of what it is like to grow up black and female in America.

(more Black Thoughtware)

Wednesday, November 19 2003

DeaDotPop?

By tjmHolden

ReDotPop -- A Concept Due Its Title -- It is a sniff-the-breeze, taste-the-frisky-freshness-of-freedom problem that has no Japanese word to describe it.

(more ReDotPop)

Bring on the Truth

By David Sirota

Now, with the Administration calling up thousands of National Guard and reservists to serve in Iraq, the say-one-thing, do-another dance continues.

(more Mixed Messages)

Into the Mainstream

By Stephen Tropiano

I am optimistic about what lies ahead as the prime time closet door continues to open.

(more The Prime Time Closet)

The Kennedy Mystique, 40 Years Later

By Tara Taghizadeh

The popular notion of the 'Kennedy curse' has preoccupied America for some time.

(more Global Graffiti)

Wednesday, November 12 2003

The UN, George Bush, and You

By Robert R. Thompson

Politics and Culture/East and West -- Americans feel very mean towards the UN, at the moment.

(more Politics and Culture/East and West)

Jailhouse Pop

By Simon Warner

Nothing adds a more notable notch to your studded belt, nothing sharpens the spurs on your blue-suede shoes better, than a bit of disorderly disrespect for the social code.

(more Anglo Visions)

Wednesday, November 5 2003

The Soul of the Game

By Colin Harvey

Video games play us as much we play them. They do this by keying into our emotions as a means of generating feelings, a precedent set by many other cultural activities.

(more Trivial Pursuit)

An Argument for State-Sanctioned Torture

By Sam Vaknin

Inevitably, the very act of being rendered suspect is traumatic and bound to inflict psychological, pecuniary, and physical pain and suffering.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, October 22 2003

Killing in Translation

By Brian Ruh

When we're in Japan, we feel we've somehow become more worldly and debonair than we really are.

(more From Here to Shinjuku)

Fantastic Trash, Modular Man, and the Postcolonial City

By Priya Lal

While the city of Chandigarh -- modular man -- marched visibly, unabashedly into scientific modernity, Nek Chand -- the trash man -- began secretly transforming his odd collection of junk into art.

(more Bollywood from Beyond)

Wednesday, October 15 2003

African Diminuendo of a Classic Sound

By Robyn Sassen

I predicted that 10 years down the line, not only would this audience not be with us any longer, but neither would the music that they hear: not in Africa, at least.

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

Technosoul: They Sing The Black Body Electric

By Lynne d Johnson

In this music, technology enabled these musicians, DJs, and producers, to take what was human and create the posthuman.

(more Black Thoughtware)

The Motives of Intimigate

By David Sirota

The leak of classified information was a coded threat . . . they better keep their mouths shut and stay silent about what they know is true.

(more Mixed Messages)

Wednesday, October 8 2003

What’s in the Wash

By Karen Zarker

Whether today's babies are clinging to a skinny, malnourished hip, or being wheeled about in a plush, triple stroller, come the time they reach working age -- should they reach working age -- they might well outnumber the souls of the dead and the posts they've vacated.

(more What's Working)

Tuesday, October 7 2003

Patriots, Terrorists, and Liberty’s Future

By Robert R. Thompson

Politics and Culture/East and West -- Americans are torn between the conflicting demands of liberty and security.

(more Politics and Culture/East and West)

Ready, Steady, Goth

By Simon Warner

Just as the sounds on the dance floor borrow from Detroit and Trenchtown, Bombay and Cape Town, so those who groove to them take their sartorial vision, their individual style, from something closer to multiculture than subculture.

(more Anglo Visions)

Wednesday, October 1 2003

Talkin’ ‘Bout an Evolution

By Colin Harvey

With their vibrant colours and cacophonous noises, video games constantly seek to insist on their primacy as agents of the Digital Moment. They get better all the time. Don't they?

(more Trivial Pursuit)

Warning: You’ve Been Flash Mobbed!

By Tara Taghizadeh

The Dadaists were doing this in Zurich in 1916 . . .

(more Global Graffiti)

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