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Tropics of Meta: Civil Society and Mass Incarceration

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Civil Society and Mass Incarceration. Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. WEB Du Bois [2]. And an important historiographical es...

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Tropics of Meta: August 2011

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Monday, August 29, 2011. Building the Perfect Echo Chamber: The 1970s and Political Discourse in the 21st Century. Just before Bob Dylan breaks into “Like a Rolling Stone” on his 1966 Wembley Hall Bootleg series. 8221; As the band cranks into the song, you can clearly hear an angry Dylan scream “Play it fucking loud! 8221; Ten years later, during his Rolling Thunder Revue. For those born in the latter half of the 1970s, for much of our lives, Republicans and the New Right seemed to be the driving force i...

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Tropics of Meta: Recreation Revolution: Working Class Youth and the Creation of Skate Culture

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Sunday, October 31, 2010. Recreation Revolution: Working Class Youth and the Creation of Skate Culture. Children took the ruins of the 20th century and made art out of them. 8211; Skip Engblom – Zephyr Skate Team co - founder. To more recent tomes like Lisa McGirr’s Suburban Warriors. The built environment of Disneyland opposed the heterogeneity of its antithesis, Coney Island. However, around the same moment as Disneyland’s opening (1955), another prominent amusement park in the region fell on...And num...

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Tropics of Meta: November 2011

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Monday, November 28, 2011. Bergman on Mars: Lars von Trier's Melancholia. On the way out of Lars von Trier’s new film Melancholia. A slightly dazed patron asked me and my friends what the whole thing was about. “It was about a director who’s a depressed asshole and wanted to make a movie about himself,” I said. Well, I got that, the man replied. But what else was it about? The first part of the film consists of a wedding party a la Rachel Getting Married. 8221; Often, the prospect of the end prompts char...

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Tropics of Meta: February 2011

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Thursday, February 24, 2011. Hefner, Hughes, and Rogen: Playboy and the Origins of the 21st Century Hipster. On first blush, Kay Hymowitz seems to be talking about the rise of the yuppie and its Brooklyn cousin, the hipster. (Is there a difference anymore? This pack of pre-adults consists of youngish people, presumably educated, who spend the disposable income they might otherwise drop on diapers or a mortgage to do whatever suits them. In fact, though, she is ranting in the Wall Street Journal. Yet it h...

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Tropics of Meta: January 2012

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Monday, January 23, 2012. Nixon in Space: The Familiar Political Personality of Newt Gingrich. Will surely win a place in our forthcoming sequel, The American Political Tradition 2: The Revenge. The original Richard Hofstadter classic. I often like to ask students who they think would appear in an updated version of the 1948 book. Barack Hussein Obama is a ready answer. “He’s like a fictional character, but real,” Bob Dylan once said. Or Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland. Republicans have been bashing “we...

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Tropics of Meta: Subculture Rub: Tracing the Winding Path of Street Art

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Subculture Rub: Tracing the Winding Path of Street Art. From our perch in the early 21st century, when multinational corporations hoover anything remotely hip, it is easy to forget how hostile the climate for hip once was. The church, the law, capital and mass opinion all lined up against hip, as against a disease. John Leland, Hip: The History. How much does the process or act count in the creation of this art? Dick Hebdige, Subculture the Meaning of Style. The Sex Pistols ma...

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Tropics of Meta: March 2012

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Thursday, March 1, 2012. Take the Old Grey Mare Out and Shoot It. Tropics of Meta has decided to move to a shiny new site. Over time we have accumulated a pretty substantial body of work centering on urban history, technology, pop culture, diplomatic history and more. These areas of concentration reflect the interests of our editors and writers, and the new site features sections devoted specifically to topics such as Cities. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About t of m. Tropics of meta has moved!

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Tropics of Meta: December 2011

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Sunday, December 25, 2011. Christmas Clipse: Spending Your Holiday Trill with Virginia Beach's Most Notorious Rap Duo. Re-Up Gang, "20 K Intro," We Got it For Cheap Vol. 3. And a trilogy of mixtapes ( We Got it For Cheap Vols. Clipse reshaped rap. Rather than sit motionless for nearly a half decade, the Clipse formed the Re-Up Gang with Philly based rappers Sandman and Ab-liva, releasing the aforementioned We Got it For Cheap. Series. Certainly, mix tapes were not new, as Pusha T admitted in an. Online, ...

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Tropics of Meta: June 2011

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Monday, June 27, 2011. Goats, Swords, and Fried Oreos: The Old 321 Flea Market as a Landscape of Globalization. But the name change also reflects the greater connection of Dallas and Gaston County in general to the broader world, as symbolized by the interstate that connects the area's mill villages to a more cosmopolitan circuit of commerce and culture from Atlanta to Raleigh, with the all the migration that the transportation infrastructure brings. Gaston is part of the larger Charlotte. We generally t...