By: Miranda Mellis

I particularly like the space “the analysis” makes for ambivalence.

By: Peggy Nelson

A celebration of nerdy enthusiasms

By: Brian Berger

FREUDIANS

By: Peggy Nelson

Playing the appropriation game.

By: Peggy Nelson

His breakthrough was to see the mind as a linguistic construct.

By: Matthew Battles

The dystopian classic is also a parable of the information age.

By: Peggy Nelson

Freud showed us how we construct, and reconstruct, the self in language.

By: Peggy Nelson

Cybersex, curation, and tricksters.

By: Peggy Nelson

I know we only just met, but don’t worry, it’s science. [I Rub My Duckie vibrator image courtesy sfgate.com] I mean vibrators, of course. It’s great how flexible our metaphors are, how they vibrate with […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.

By: Joshua Glenn

Looking back on it all, from the vantage point of a couple months, it’s apparent that the Susan Boyle Phenomenon (SBP) had very little to do with poor Susan Boyle (SB) herself. Susan Boyle’s judges […]

By: HILOBROW

Happy birthday, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HILO birthdays. *** MAY 3 James Brown Pete Seeger *** MAY 4 Keith Haring Jane Jacobs *** MAY […]