Recent Columns

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Wednesday, April 9 2003

Washington Watch: Greetings from the City of Power

By Tara Taghizadeh

My attempts to take pictures of the barricaded street in front of the State Department are immediately stopped when a guard curtly informed me that photos are forbidden.

(more Global Graffiti)

Rock in the Academy

By Simon Warner

Few are stunted or stultified by the need to think about and analyse where rock or reggae or rave fits into the cultural landscape.

(more Anglo Visions)

The Demise of the West

By Sam Vaknin

No official version of the events can survive the onslaught of blogs and multiple news reporting.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Thursday, March 27 2003

Confessions of a ThugNiggaIntellectual

By Mark Anthony Neal

I share a space with them each time I'm profiled in grocery stores, or chillin' with my homies Gramsci and Jay Z at Starbucks.

(more Critical Noire)

Wednesday, March 19 2003

Bigmouth Strikes Again: Eight Mistakes that Music Critics Make

By Mark Desrosiers

We rock critics should have leathery skins and sore throbbing eardrums and calloused typing fingers, and we should accept little in return but the possibility of more great new tunes coming our way.

(more Pomo Audit)

Outing TV’s Heterosexual Homosexuals

By Stephen Tropiano

Soap used Jodie's sexual liaison with Carol as an opportunity to have his character function as a heterosexual on the level of plot, yet simultaneously maintain his position as the show's sexual other.

(more The Prime Time Closet)

Wednesday, March 12 2003

Genesis and Revelations: From the Midlands to Manhattan

By Simon Warner

(I)t soon became apparent that the Megsons took a slightly less conventional approach to life.

(more Anglo Visions)

Wednesday, March 5 2003

Why America is Hated

By Sam Vaknin

I firmly believe that it is better to face a forthright villain than a masquerading saint.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, February 26 2003

Still a Riot Goin’ On: Fela Kuti, Celebrity Gramscians, and the AIDs Crisis in Africa

By Mark Anthony Neal

Fela's emergence fits the profile of what has come to be known as the Gramscian or organic intellectual.

(more Critical Noire)

Lessons of the Giant Robot

By Brian Ruh

As commander of an ever-militarizing state with energy-grabbing schemes, George W. Bush seems like our own real-life version of Megatron.

(more From Here to Shinjuku)

Thursday, February 20 2003

Kentridge Matters

By Robyn Sassen

With his conceptual experiments, collaborative projects and performed artworks, Kentridge has succeeded in awaking everyone to the notion of classical narrative, fabulous music, the South African gesammtkunstwerk . . .

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

Wednesday, February 12 2003

Rock and Reality: How TV and Pop Got It Together

By Simon Warner

The young starlets rocketed from obscurity to celebrity overnight also seem likely to return to obscurity, carrying the embarrassing ignominy of their brief TV fame, with them.

(more Anglo Visions)

Wednesday, February 5 2003

The Great Wave

By tjmHolden

The false notion that culture exported worldwide is an American invention has been swept into the historical soup of misconception, along with famous fallacies such as Aryan supremacy and the glories of Stalinism or Maoism.

(more ReDotPop)

Serial Killers as a Cultural Construct

By Sam Vaknin

Such killers are convinced that they are more honest and open about their desires and, thus, morally superior.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, January 29 2003

You’re So Bleedin’ Bourgeois!

By Tara Taghizadeh

No other conversation garners as much chit chat and enjoyment amongst not only the French, but most Europeans, as the plight of the frowned-upon bourgeoisie.

(more Global Graffiti)

Thursday, January 23 2003

Living Out Loud

By Stephen Tropiano

(T)he legacy of 'An American Family' serves as an important reminder of television's untapped potential to move us, to open our eyes, and to see the world beyond our backyard.

(more The Prime Time Closet)

Wednesday, January 15 2003

In no-man’s land I got lost

By Robyn Sassen

In Afrikaner alternative music and poetry, Johannes Kerkorrel was like the Bob Dylan of white South Africa . . .

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

On Fire Like Old Dry Garbage

By Mark Desrosiers

He was an over-saturated, pungent, weed-choked swamp of words.

(more Pomo Audit)

Wednesday, January 8 2003

Death Row: A View from the Cheap Seats

By Simon Warner

. . .when you personally pass Jimi's age or John's, or Buddy's or Elvis', you realise just how fleetingly they basked in the limelight, and how briefly the candle of your own existence flairs then flickers.

(more Anglo Visions)

Sex or Gender

By Sam Vaknin

Are gender identity and sexual preferences . . . immutable lifelong features or dynamically evolving frames of self-reference?

(more Artificial Intelligence)

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