Culture & Media Separating Art from Propaganda Posted on April 13, 20183 commentsbyShane Fraser Fair warning: this article is propaganda. It was written to change your mind. I have a point to make and an argument to support this point, with the intended result… View Post
View Post 17 min Culture & Media Let’s Make Tomatoes Great Again Posted on November 15, 2017November 16, 20176 commentsbyTussah Heera As we’re all aware, there’s some pretty heavy shit going on in the world. I’m pretty sure you’re all as exhausted with current events as I am, so let’s whisk… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media In Defense of HBO’s Counterfactual ‘Confederate’ Posted on September 10, 2017September 11, 2017One commentbyGavriel D. Rosenfeld In late July, HBO announced its forthcoming alternate history series Confederate, a show that will take place in a world in which the South successfully seceded from the Union and… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media The Gospel of Jon Snow: Christ Allegory in ‘Game of Thrones’ Posted on July 31, 2017September 8, 20174 commentsbyAndrew Rainaldi — Spoilers for Game of Thrones up to Season 7, Episode 3 — When a writer is trying to convey that a character is some kind of hero or redeemer, that… View Post
View Post 10 min Features Taking out a Patent on Culture Posted on July 17, 2017June 6, 20183 commentsbyFrank Furedi Calls to destroy a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of a black victim of a lynch mob hanging in the Whitney Museum illustrates that for many, even artistic… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media All About the Muzhik: The Post-Modern Zeitgeist is Ironically Pre-Socratic Posted on May 12, 2017September 9, 20172 commentsbyReilly Smethurst If music is the zeitgeist, then ours is a funny society. In ancient Greece, mousikē did not revolve around the human-animal (anthropos). Our capitalist democracies, by contrast, treat music as… View Post