Watershed

Patriarchy, Virginity, and Reclamation in Hocus Pocus

First released in 1993, Disney’s Hocus Pocus was considered a critical failure, losing nearly $16 million and running in theatres only a ...

Don't Make Me Choose, Please: Labor Exclusive of the Body or the Mind (?)

I need to talk about something said to me recently by someone in the academic world, when they assumed that I had been doing “more physic...

Netflix's Queer Eye and Disability Representation

I want to begin by making something very clear: I love Queer Eye. I think it’s a fun and sometimes inspirational show that encourages peo...

Tucker Carlson, John Bolton, North Korea, and the Politics of “Killing People”

[T]he ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must d...

Procedural Rhetoric and the Possibility Space in "The Sims 3"

Published by EA Maxis in 2009, The Sims 3 is considered to be the best life simulation video game by many gaming enthusiasts, and has sol...

On the Great Video Game Debate and Situational Ethics

**some of the content within this piece contains discussion of violence within the context of video games. Today’s scapegoat for the vice...

Automation and Disability: Labor Conditions in Robot Futurity

"When I hear us dream our futures, believe we will make it to one, We will make one. The future lives in our bodies. Touch it." from "Fem...

HotE Review: Annie McClanahan's “Tipwork, Microwork, Automation: The Insecurity of 21st C. Labor

This year, the Humanities on the Edge speaking series celebrates its 10th year of operation by reflecting on the history of HotE as well ...

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Annie McClanahan

As we begin the first semester of the 2019/20 school year, we anticipate the resumption of the Humanities on the Edge speaking series, ce...

Critical Interrogations of Institution and Self: Watershed and Spring 2019

In “The Neoliberal Institution of Culture and the Critique of Culturalization,” Dusan Grlja and Jelena Vesic discuss an art collective th...

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