Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Gentrification
A satirical piece by Yxta Maya Murray about the Boyle Heights artwashing controversy.
Yxta Maya MurraySep 19, 2016
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
A God Who Let Us Prove His Existence Would Be An Idol: Archie Rand, “The 613,” and the Slippery, Vexing, Kafkaesque Problem Of the Jewish Visual Imagination
Are murals kosher in Brooklyn? Robert Anthony Siegel talks to Archie Rand to find out.
Robert Anthony SiegelSep 19, 2016
Žižek’s Trans/gender Trouble
Che Gossett responds to Slavoj Žižek’s essay “The Sexual Is Political,” published in "The Philosophical Salon."
Che GossettSep 13, 2016
How Japan Invented Los Angeles — and Reinvented American Style
Colin Marshall takes the measure of “Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style” by W. David Marx.
Colin MarshallSep 12, 2016
Sermonizing in Pearls: Phyllis Schlafly and the Women’s History of the Religious Right
Neil J. Young examines the role of Phyllis Schlafly in modeling the ecumenical potential of the Religious Right.
Neil J. YoungSep 7, 2016
Skin in the Game: Whiteness Without White Supremacy?
Linda Martín Alcoff discusses the history and meaning of “whiteness” as a racial category and social identity in an interview with Andrew Waddell.
Andrew Duncan WaddellSep 1, 2016
- Cultural Studies
- Nonfiction
Eighty Years of James Agee
Christopher Knapp looks back on "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
Christopher KnappSep 1, 2016
“Heavy Metal Parking Lot” and the Meaning of Life
Is there more to life than chugging cheap beer and yelling, "Life sucks shit"? Joe Bucciero looks at "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" to find out.
Joe BuccieroAug 30, 2016
UNESCO and the Strange Career of Multiculturalism
Does multiculturalism still have its revolutionary potential?
Jordan SandAug 28, 2016
Are PhD Students Irrational?
Debunking the widespread idea that humanities PhD students are irrational for entering into an “oversupplied” degree in a tight job market.
Aaron R. HanlonAug 24, 2016
- Cultural Studies
- Nonfiction
What’s the Matter with Cancer Alley? Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Anatomy of Trumpism
Sean McCann on Arlie Russell Hochschild's “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”.
Sean McCannAug 22, 2016
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
In Search of the “Real” Japan
A review of Donald Richie’s classic book about Japan, “The Inland Sea”.
Colin MarshallAug 18, 2016
- Around the World
- Cultural Studies