Some Knotted Thoughts on Theory
1. When I was an undergraduate student in an American literature survey class, I wrote an essay on Susan Glaspbell’s one-act play...
Matthew Guzman
- Sep 22, 2015
“Aristotle and Animal Feeling” by Debra Hawhee: Humanities on the Edge Lecture Review
Not liking dogs is un-human. Our longtime “besties,” besides being all cute and Lassie-like, strike me as an interesting example of our...
Katie McWain
- Sep 15, 2015
Debra Hawhee's "Rhetoric's Sensorium"
How might we reenvision rhetoric’s relationship to sensation—to the senses, the body, and sensory experience? Debra Hawhee considers this...
Christina Ivey
- Sep 8, 2015
Debra Hawhee’s Rhetorics, Bodies, and Everyday Life
Over the summer, students at a New Jersey high school received the lecture of a lifetime. No, it wasn’t a groundbreaking scholar,...
Dan Froid
- Sep 8, 2015
Toward a Theory of the Man Cave
At the risk of beginning by placing my credibility in peril, I’ll just say it. For a while now I’ve found the concept of the man cave...
Jason Hertz
- Sep 1, 2015
Turnstile Dynamics and the Politics of Daily Life
Ideology does not vanish when cultural theorists explain it. Material relations and unconscious desires recapitulate it. Theory does...
Daniel Clausen
- Sep 1, 2015
Some Thoughts on "The Machine"
This summer, American culture was in love with Machines. Sometimes this was literal: the movie Ex-Machina is the most obvious example,...
team Watershed
- May 4, 2015
Summer Hiatus
Goodbye, Chandler!! Before we start our review of this semester, we want to bid farewell and acknowledge the significant contributions of...
Edwardo Rios
- Apr 28, 2015
A Note on Conceptualism
A novel with no intimation of a story whatsoever[….] Plotless. Characterless. Yet seducing the reader into turning the pages nonetheless....
watershedunl
- Apr 21, 2015
The Trolls and Copypasta of Twitch Chat
Current discussions surrounding cyber bullying or the creation of communities via the World Wide Web are similar to those that occurred...