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    Humanities on the Edge Lecture Review: Ursula Heise

    Humanities on the Edge Lecture Review: Ursula Heise

    On Oct. 2, 2014, Ursula Heise [http://www.uheise.net/] spoke on “Biocities: Urban Futures and the Reinvention of Nature” to an attentive ...
    Humanities on the Edge Article Review: Ursula Heise

    Humanities on the Edge Article Review: Ursula Heise

    The plants at the center of Ruth Ozeki’s 2003 novel All Over Creation are agricultural crops, in particular, the Russet Burbank potato. U...
    The Trouble with Triggers

    The Trouble with Triggers

    Like so many people in academia, my beliefs about trigger warnings solidified almost immediately the moment I first heard the term. It’s ...

    Humanities on the Edge Book Review: Ursula Heise

    Heise, Ursula. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. In a world in w...
    Notes on Genitoanal Obscenity

    Notes on Genitoanal Obscenity

    “Anal obscenity, pushed to such a point that the most representative apes even got rid of their tails (which hide the anus from other ani...
    The Exceptional State of Sex Offender Registries (Part One)

    The Exceptional State of Sex Offender Registries (Part One)

    In my parent’s mailbox situated in front of their house in a (stereo)typical middle-middle class suburban neighborhood, a postcard occasi...
    Re-imagining the Net Neutrality "Debate"

    Re-imagining the Net Neutrality "Debate"

    Karl Marx has found his way into the discussion concerning net neutrality in myriad ways; all for the wrong reasons. From the nod to Marx...
    Whose Nostalgia?: Mad men writing about "Mad Men"

    Whose Nostalgia?: Mad men writing about "Mad Men"

    ​​ I’ll admit to being late to the Mad Men party. While the series debuted in 2007, I am still slogging through season 6 on Netflix—empha...
    Violence in Westeros

    Violence in Westeros

    Like so many of my nonviolent friends, I am drawn to HBO’s television adaptation Game of Thrones. And as I watch characters lose heads, h...
    Peter Berlin's Strange, Dark Fantasies

    Peter Berlin's Strange, Dark Fantasies

    Peter Berlin’s That Boy (1974) emerged within the golden age of gay male pornographic films and in the aftermath of the development of th...
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