Sociopaths and Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is bristling with sociopaths. The most successful characters (measured in terms of episodes survived, or the power they...
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watershedunl
- Dec 9, 2014
End of Semester Recap and Review
having experience becomes common out-of-the-ordinary-thoughts having given to one's peer group real or imagined, in list form to be...
watershedunl
- Dec 2, 2014
Review of Michael Marder’s “For a Phytocentrism to Come”
Can Western critical theory decenter anthropos, the human? The formulation of the “Anthropocene” as a geological era suggests that human...
James Lowell Brunton
- Nov 18, 2014
Nostalgia and Melancholia
I’ll wrap up my semester-long look at nostalgia with some insights on Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” that occurred to me while...
watershedunl
- Nov 11, 2014
Humanities on the Edge Lecture Review: Gregg Lambert
The crowd in the Sheldon Museum sat slightly perplexed last Thursday as this unsettling recording of Antonin Artuad’s To Have Done With...
watershedunl
- Nov 4, 2014
Humanities on the Edge Article Review: Gregg Lambert
In The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt’s dazzling new novel (released earlier this year), Harry Burden has a problem with the art world. A...
watershedunl
- Nov 4, 2014
Weedy Environmental Justice
Many people mark the beginning of contemporary environmentalism with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962. Carson...
watershedunl
- Nov 4, 2014
Humanities on the Edge Article Review: Gregg Lambert
I was in my eighteenth year when the first gulf war started in 1990 (the one that Baudrillard said didn’t actually happen). Except for...
watershedunl
- Oct 21, 2014
The Boundary and the Leak
No less than thirty years ago, Albert Borgmann introduced the influential “device paradigm” in his Technology and the Character of...
James Lowell Brunton
- Oct 14, 2014
Competing Nostalgias and the Politics of the Accessible Poem
“…we have to get over, as in getting over a disease, the idea that we can ‘all’ speak to one another in the universal voice of poetry”...
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