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
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 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 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,...
watershedunl
- Aug 26, 2014
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...