Recent Columns

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Wednesday, October 1 2003

Morality as Collateral Damage

By Sam Vaknin

The universal imperative 'thou shall not kill (another human being)' is easily over-ruled by the moral obligation to kill for one's country. The imperative 'though shall not steal' is superseded by one's moral obligation to spy for one's nation.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, September 24 2003

DeaDotPop?

By tjmHolden

It wasn't until I disembarked in Narita, with my bottle of French brandy and Eiffel Tower mug and Polish soccer scarf and amber bracelet from the darkest Slavic forests, that I reentered the world of the living.

(more ReDotPop)

On Film Stars, Politicians, and Gods

By Priya Lal

Sometimes, when reality gets too unreal, you have to let unreality become real.

(more Bollywood from Beyond)

Wednesday, September 17 2003

Profit America

By David Sirota

We have a government run by people whose only goal is to enrich corporate profits, and we're paying the price; with our jobs, our health care, our international credibility, and our future.

(more Mixed Messages)

Tooting Her Horn

By Robyn Sassen

She was tempestuous, gluttonous, selfish and vulnerable: everything that an artist as genius is supposed to be.

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

Thursday, September 11 2003

Reading Lolita in Tehran, and in Baghdad, and in Hungary, and in New York

By Robert R. Thompson

For whatever the hardships, people will read.

(more Politics and Culture/East and West)

Laughing Matters?

By Simon Warner

Have we maybe now entered that post-modern world where sophisticated audiences can 'read' the levels of a joke without being corrupted by the main text?

(more Anglo Visions)

Thursday, September 4 2003

A Missive From the Front Lines of Fandom

By Brian Ruh

Fans are forming their own entertainment subcultures, creating their own distinct meanings, and, to steal a phrase from the IWW, creating a 'new society within the shell of the old.'

(more From Here to Shinjuku)

The Folly of Parenthood

By Sam Vaknin

Many (children) continue to live with their parents into their thirties and consume the family's savings in college tuition, sumptuous weddings, expensive divorces, and parasitic habits.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, August 27 2003

Making Prime Time Perfectly Queer

By Stephen Tropiano

The charm and fashion sense of the Fab Five also eludes some members and/or advocates of the gay community.

(more The Prime Time Closet)

Help Her, She’s Melting

By Colin Harvey

The truth is, Lara doesn't know who she is anymore, and neither does anyone else. Is she a film star, a role model, a video game avatar or all three?

(more Trivial Pursuit)

Wednesday, August 20 2003

Dancing with Nothing but Heart

By Robyn Sassen

Through their performance art they have dealt with the legislation of sodomy, addressed the smoking of marijuana, contemplated being trained to behave in the world by learning the 'tricks' that society expects, and confronted homophobia and anti-Semitism.

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

1-800-Call-Center: India as the World’s Receptionist

By Priya Lal

Many Indians are now merely perceived as better equipped to serve Western companies.

(more Bollywood from Beyond)

SMAP: The Story of Everything

By tjmHolden

It wouldn't be far-fetched to venture that SMAP is a cultural institution, a cottage industry, and a magical commodity that works tirelessly to beget more commodities.

(more ReDotPop)

Thursday, August 14 2003

Cleveland Heights, A City of Culture and Contrasts

By Simon Warner

. . . in the midst of difference -- wealth and education here, poverty and despair just over there -- Americans retain an essential respect for the symbols of the city, the physical pillars of the nation.

(more Anglo Visions)

Thursday, August 7 2003

The CEO-In-Chief

By David Sirota

George W. Bush brought his CEO ethic to the White House. And that's the problem.

(more Mixed Messages)

Catch Them If You Can

By Tara Taghizadeh

Why would someone who obviously has enough talent to be hired by a venerable institution feel the need to ruin themselves, and more importantly, shame the institution with which they are affiliated?

(more Global Graffiti)

Thursday, July 24 2003

The Myth of Mental Illness

By Sam Vaknin

Suicide, substance abuse, narcissism, eating disorders, antisocial ways, schizotypal symptoms, depression, even psychosis are considered sick by some cultures -- and utterly normative or advantageous in others.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

We Can Be Heroes

By Colin Harvey

As gamers we may be brave in the virtual world but maybe we're actually just running scared from reality.

(more Trivial Pursuit)

Crossing Borders, Writing Back: The Work of Arundhati Roy and Mahasweta Devi

By Priya Lal

Novelists across generations and national borders have had feet planted simultaneously in the worlds of fiction and non-fiction, creative writing and journalism.

(more Bollywood from Beyond)

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