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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: 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: 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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