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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watershedunl
- Oct 7, 2014
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...
watershedunl
- Sep 30, 2014
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....
watershedunl
- Sep 30, 2014
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...
watershedunl
- Sep 23, 2014
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...
watershedunl
- Sep 16, 2014
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...
watershedunl
- Sep 9, 2014
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...
watershedunl
- Sep 2, 2014
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...
James Lowell Brunton
- Sep 2, 2014
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...
watershedunl
- Aug 26, 2014
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,...
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