Weekly Reading (02/25/2018)
Selections from the Web:
Culture:
- David Klion: Unlearning Woody Allen
- Eric Thurm: How to Do Things With Memes: Galaxy-Braining the Galaxy Brain Meme
- Luke Cragg: Temporary Autonomous Taco Zones: The Fast Food Vigil, and the Rise of Folk Détournement
- Sarah Maza: Swinging: The Double Life of Anaïs Nin
Politics:
- Drew Magary: The Importance of Rudeness
- Frank Pasquale: Strange Elegies: When the ‘Deep Story’ Is a Big Lie
- Liza Featherstone: The Listening Con: How the Powerful Learned to Launder Their Reputations Using Focus Groups
Billy Graham:
- Adam Kirk Edgerton: The Hateful Legacy of Billy Graham
- Anthea Butler: Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity
W. E. B. Du Bois:
- Britt Rusert: W. E. B. Du Bois, Aesthetics, and the Weird
- Stephanie Shaw: An Alternative View of Du Bois’s Talented Tenth
Environment:
- Livia Albeck-Ripka: How Six Americans Changed Their Minds About Global Warming
- Rebecca Burns: On Poisoned Ground: East Chicago’s Legacy of Lead Pollution
Really Old Stuff:
- Anika Burgess: Rediscovering the Blazingly Bright Colors of Ancient Sculptures
- Francis Gooding: Feathered, Furred or Coloured (Review of Palaeoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past by Zoë Lescaze)
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Neil Postman: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Jenny Andersson: “The Great Future Debate and the Struggle for the World,” The American Historical Review, (2012)
- Marci D. Cottingham: “Theorizing Emotional Capital,” Theory and Society, (2016)