Annalee Newitz writes that "[w]hether Avatar is racist is a matter of debate," but it isn't: the film is racist. Its fundamental narrative logic is racist: it transposes the cultural politics of Westerns (in which the Native Americans are animists who belong to a more...
Author: SEK
I am, most likely, the only person on earth currently taking a break from the serious work of reading and writing about comics by reading a novel whose cover declares.
...some how or other the most innovative and compelling show in the history of television is only the sixth best show of the past decade. (And they wonder why print's.
...but in the series of photographs of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and his interns that shani-o linked to this afternoon, we have:Steele and a white guySteele and a white guySteele and a white guySteele and a white womanSteele and a white womanSteele and...
As demonstrated by his Twitter feed:Doh! MEDIAMUTTERS falls into trap while defending fisting-happy Obama 'Safe Schools Czar': http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex @mmfa about 5 hours ago from web EARACHE BOEHLERT? You don't find.
The final assignment of my visual rhetoric course is called Rhetoric in Practice (or RIP). It has two components. To paraphrase the rubric: the students create their own rhetorical performance,.
If you're interested in contemporary science fiction, I've reviewed what Kim Stanley Robinson and I agree is the best novel of 2009 period here. I can't recommend it highly enough.If, on the other hand, you're interested in watching Jeff Goldstein self-implode at the mention of...
Which is unfortunate, because I'm about to call him illiterate. He claims that I argued that Sarah Palin and her supporters are "racist because there were so few non-whites pictured.
Instead of playing "Count the Non-White People!" with Sarah Palin's photographs of her appearance at Fort Bragg, I will present some statistics about the base and surrounding community:White Non-Hispanic (52.9%)Black.
In the comments to a long, inaccurate attack on those who consider Palin evidence that the conservative movement is trending stupid, Darleen Click claims that those who point out the extreme whiteness of Palin supporters "reveal a great more about [themselves] than Palin." Because such...
Few write on the history of evolutionary theory as compellingly as John Wilkins. (Had his Species: the History of an Idea and Defining Species: a Sourcebook from Antiquity to Today.
Global warming skeptics are attacking climate scientist Phil Jones for encouraging trickery in an email recently stolen off the webmail server at the University of East Anglia in which he.