Cultural Studies

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

Don’t Eat This Marshmallow: Cooling the Fever for Self-Control
"Like a real marshmallow, like any of the temptations offered children in his now-famous experiment, Mischel’s new book — The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control — is a trigger for our desire."
Helen Betya RubinsteinDec 18, 2014
The State of Surveillance
"We didn’t particularly set out to write a book about state-sponsored surveillance."
Bruce Joshua MillerDec 15, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Philosophy & Religion
Three Questions for Juan Felipe Herrera Regarding His New Book, “Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes”
"We need to walk these books to the centers of educational institutions — this is what it is all about."
Daniel A. OlivasDec 4, 2014
- Biography & Autobiography
- Cultural Studies
Fun, Fury, and the American Studies Association
An Interview with ASA President Lisa Duggan
Sarah MesleNov 6, 2014
- Cultural Studies
It Was a Very Good Year
Why study a single year? Lots of reasons.
Alan GlynnNov 1, 2014
Where Danger Is
Rebecca Solnit "keeps her faith in the human project, its possibilities. But these will not be easily offered."
Sven BirkertsOct 28, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Memoir & Essay
A Tale of Two ’Hoods: A Rap on Silver Lake
Silver Lake: a correspondence.
Dagoberto Gilb, Rubén MartínezOct 25, 2014
- Cultural Studies
Work It on Out
Bob Stanley’s musical history Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! loves the social, material world where music is made and heard.
Joshua Joy KamenskyOct 23, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Music
OkCupid’s XOXO for Big Surveillance
Love in the time of lab rats.
Evan SelingerOct 20, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Science & Technology
From Outer Space, or Something: Fantasizing Capital in Contemporary Hip-Hop
Rappers like Rick Ross, Jay-Z, and Kanye West use fantasy to challenge the duty to represent lack within black life.
Ismail MuhammadOct 14, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Music
Postcommunist Cartography: Agata Pyzik’s “Poor but Sexy”
Agata Pyzik’s Poor but Sexy attempts an ambitious continental psychogeography, examining the historical legacy of communism in Eastern and Western Europe.
Ross WolfeOct 10, 2014
- Cultural Studies
Is College Still Worth It?
“Our failing colleges” got the A-side listing. The B-side, “our failing pragmatism: how a market focus hurt college learning” — never got played.
Christopher NewfieldSep 29, 2014