By: Peggy Nelson

Ceramics as an agent of critical inquiry: Shalene Valenzuela

By: Peggy Nelson

What rough beast emerges from our virtual ids?

By: Joshua Glenn

What, if anything, did Blu have to do with this Levi’s ad?

By: Joshua Glenn

Chevron’s “I Will” campaign owes a debt to Foucault and Kafka.

By: Matthew Battles

All aboard the space-time bandwidth.

By: Matthew Battles

Darwin’s dangerous idea does more than explain the existence of life in its myriad forms and set forth a materialist worldview that makes Biblical literalists foam at the mouths. It’s also as meme with enormous […]

By: Matthew Battles

HORROR IS CRUCIAL to human experience. Like sex, innocence, and despair, the fear of death is a wellspring of all kinds of creative activity; with the help of its zombified double, the uncanny, it unsettles […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Speaking of brows. You know Cadbury’s 2009 viral ad, “Eyebrows”? The one in which two children — peculiarly self-composed, knowing, mysterious, alien-like children — wiggle their eyebrows to the beat of Freestyle Express’s “Don’t Stop […]