I, like many other people, was utterly entranced by Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory Doctorow’s breakout book, it posits a post-scarcity world where the economy […]
At least he's not wearing a bra.
And here I thought it was going to be a blog-free day. Color this conflict theory: Lipstick-wearing boy not kissing up to school district Allsup said the makeup […]
You say vampire, I say don't cry, emo kid.
In the weird, odd way that the Internet has, I stumbled across real-life vampires last weekend. When I was a teenager – and Ann Rice’s Vampire Chronicle novels […]
Degrading Gracefully
The concept of degrading has a different emphasis in the world of technology. When we talk about degrading in the physical world, it is always in the sense […]
25 years later…
Everyone in the US remembered an anniversary this week. It’s been seven years – and already the memory has some cynicism, some fading of intensity. It’s been over […]
I’m the man in the box…
Society is boxes. At least, that’s what Talcott Parsons claimed. His concept of functionalism had society continually striving towards an equilibrium. He sought to identify the necessary parts […]