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Wednesday, June 18 2003

Right and Wrongs: The Return of the Anti-Nazi League

By Simon Warner

This conjunction, a Prime Minister with a falling rating and a spineless Parliamentary opposition, has again wedged the door ajar for the British National Party, the current incarnation of the National Front.

(more Anglo Visions)

Wednesday, June 4 2003

Remembering the Rat Pack: When “Cool” Was King

By Tara Taghizadeh

Global Graffiti -- Remembering the Rat Pack: When 'Cool' Was King -- We're amid a full-force revival of that 'make me a Martini and put on a Sinatra record' era of the Rat Pack years.

(more Global Graffiti)

The Ecology of Environmentalism

By Sam Vaknin

Arguably, bacteria and insects exert on Nature far more influence with farther reaching consequences than Man has ever done.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, May 28 2003

Daydreams While Balancing Atop a Narrow Fence

By Robyn Sassen

If my Jewish identity was more easily recognisable, and I took a slightly faulty step in social protocols, would I also be fleeing on shot-out tires?

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

When a kiss is not just a kiss.

By Stephen Tropiano

What's different from the kisses that take place between these three couples versus the highly publicized same-sex kisses in the 1990s . . . is the two people kissing now are very much in love.

(more The Prime Time Closet)

Spy-day Night at the Fights

By tjmHolden

So much of Japanese TV these days appears predicated on this harsh formula: spying, confrontation, setting up and exposing the cads, giving them their due, then watching them twist and turn in the turbulent wind.

(more ReDotPop)

Wednesday, May 14 2003

Seeing the War from Abroad

By Robert R. Thompson

No one can sit in this conference and be unaware of the U.N's guiding principle: the need for peaceful settlement of global conflicts.

(more Politics and Culture/East and West)

Hitler and the Invention of the West

By Sam Vaknin

The idea of the West . . . is merely the last phase and manifestation of the clash of titans between Germany on the one hand, and Russia on the other.

(more Artificial Intelligence)

Wednesday, May 7 2003

Canon Fodder?

By Simon Warner

You can count your life not through T.S. Eliot's coffee spoons, but through crucial sax solos and critical Scorcese sequences.

(more Anglo Visions)

Thursday, May 1 2003

Tupac’s Book Shelf

By Mark Anthony Neal

Price drew on his own training as a Gospel musician and ethnomusicologist to examine Tupac's spiritual development, suggesting that the late artist had surpassed the legacies of John Coltrane and Mahalia Jackson as spiritual figures within the tradition of black music.

(more Critical Noire)

Wednesday, April 23 2003

Akihabara Dreams and the New Otaku

By Brian Ruh

(Akihabara) . . . is a place where a wide range of one's emotional needs can be handled through technology and media.

(more From Here to Shinjuku)

Thursday, April 17 2003

Phoenix in My Backyard

By Robyn Sassen

Ziabuya shows the community that there is something special and incredible growing in the city's belly.

(more Just Another Day in Africa)

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)

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