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Aesthetics
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From Shakespeare To Search Engines – Experimental Poetry Comes Of Age (Daniel Y. Harris)
31 October 2016
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 3 (Roger Green)
03 April 2017
The Museum As Battlefield – The Case Of Hito Steyerl, Part 1 (Wigbertson Julian Isenia)
23 April 2017
Degenerate Art and The Modern (Sue Wightman)
20 May 2018
Ambient Rhetoric And Graphic Novels (Sergio C. Figueiredo)
30 December 2018
James Bond And Jack Sparrow – Literary Archetypes Of Contrasting Economic Eras (Marianne Kimura)
09 April 2019
The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 2 (Paul Maltby)
09 March 2020
Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 1 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)
07 September 2020
Announcements
1 posts
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Last Call For Registrations For Rocky Mountain/Southwest Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit
13 November 2017
Anthropology
2 posts
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Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 1 (Roger Green)
17 March 2017
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 2 (Roger Green)
25 March 2017
Architecture
2 posts
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The Tiny House Movement – Where Less Is Really More (Rebekah Gordon)
14 February 2017
The Designer’s Responsibility – Reflecting on Humanism And Ecology In Architecture (Apil K.C.)
23 August 2018
Art-And-Spirituality
3 posts
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Charles Cassar – An Artist of “Colour” (Louis Lagana)
21 March 2018
What Might Burning Man Say To Reflexive Christianity In The West?, Part 1 (John W. Morehead)
20 May 2019
What Might Burning Man Say To Reflexive Christianity In The West?, Part 2 (John W. Morehead)
01 June 2019
Art-Education
1 posts
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The Visual Arts Classroom – A Site of Societal Influence And Change (Shannon Pennell)
30 May 2020
Art-History
12 posts
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Querying And Queering The Virgin – Sacred Iconography And Profane Iconoclasm In The Art Of Frida Kahlo (Tina Kinsella)
15 January 2017
Art And Madness (Iwo Zmyślony)
22 January 2017
Art And Madness, Part 2 (Iwo Zmyślony)
07 February 2017
The “Fatal Woman” In Feminism And Modernism (Eric Galowitsch)
09 May 2017
Against Art By Other Means – The Case Of Goran Đorđević, 1972-85 (Branislav Dimitrijević)
31 May 2017
Creating a Room of One’s Own – The Feminine Placemaking of “Womanhouse” (Shelby Maiden)
11 March 2018
Charles Cassar – An Artist of “Colour” (Louis Lagana)
21 March 2018
The Dance At The Barnes (Ayala Sella)
02 April 2018
Death Of Christ/Death Of the Artist – The Slippage Of Meaning In Contemporary Performance Art And Photography (Urszula Szulakowska)
30 July 2018
Making Mesoamerica Visible In The Discourse Of Contemporary Art And Ecology (Elliott Jenkins)
09 May 2019
Global Art, Post-Colonialism And The End of Art History (Robert McDougall), Part 1
02 May 2020
Global Art, Post-Colonialism And The End of Art History (Robert McDougall), Part 2
10 May 2020
Art-Theory
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Metamodernism – Art After Postmodernism (Sandra Ceas)
29 August 2016
Ambient Rhetoric And Graphic Novels (Sergio C. Figueiredo)
31 August 2016
But Is It Art? – Searching For Simple, Practical, And Illuminating Answers (Jakob Zaaiman)
04 January 2017
But Is It Art? – Searching For Simple, Practical, And Illuminating Answers, Part 2 (Jakob Zaaiman)
09 January 2017
On Affect Theory And Art Criticism, Part 1 (Jeremy LeMahieu)
28 February 2017
On Affect Theory And Art Criticism, Part 2 (Jeremy LeMahieu)
07 March 2017
“When Did Beauty Become So F…n’ Ugly?” (Davor Džalto)
13 April 2017
The Ontology Of Doodling and Everyday Image-Work (Sergio Figueiredo)
16 May 2017
Hegel And The Buddha in Popular Culture and Art, Part 1 (Dion Peoples)
13 June 2017
Hegel And The Buddha in Popular Culture and Art, Part 2 (Dion Peoples)
20 June 2017
How To Talk About Art, Part 3 – Interrogating What We See (Rebekah Gordon)
23 August 2017
Experiencing The Experience Of Light – Concerning Space Art (Leonardo de Vivo)
10 October 2017
“Post-Matter” – Wearable Art That Blurs The Boundaries Between Bodies And Environment (Larissa E. Shaw)
01 November 2017
Creating a Room of One’s Own – The Feminine Placemaking of “Womanhouse” (Shelby Maiden)
11 March 2018
Ambient Rhetoric And Graphic Novels (Sergio C. Figueiredo)
30 December 2018
“Metasonics” – The Silent Space Of The Vacuum (Jonathan P. Morgan)
02 April 2019
Making Mesoamerica Visible In The Discourse Of Contemporary Art And Ecology (Elliott Jenkins)
09 May 2019
Duchamp – A Liberating Lineage For Social Art Practice, Part 1 (Jacquelynn Baas)
01 September 2019
Duchamp – A Liberating Lineage For Social Art Practice, Part 2 (Jacquelynn Baas)
09 September 2019
The Phenomenon Of Marina Abramović As Re-enactment Of The Passions Of The Contemporary Elite, Part 1 (Gennady Shkliarevsky)
09 November 2020
The Phenomenon Of Marina Abramović As Re-enactment Of The Passions Of The Contemporary Elite, Part 2 (Gennady Shkliarevsky)
16 November 2020
Arts-And-Society
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Putting Picasso On The Economic Development Council (Carl Raschke)
31 August 2016
After The Death Of Art (Carl Raschke)
31 August 2016
The Museum As Battlefield – The Case Of Hito Steyerl, Part 2 (Wigbertson Julian Isenia)
01 May 2017
The Socially Engaged Art Of Francis Alÿs (Hania Afifi)
23 May 2017
Against Art By Other Means – The Case Of Goran Đorđević, 1972-85 (Branislav Dimitrijević)
31 May 2017
Hegel And The Buddha in Popular Culture and Art, Part 2 (Dion Peoples)
20 June 2017
How To Talk About Art, Part 1 – What Is Art? (Rebekah Gordon)
19 July 2017
How To Talk About Art, Part 2 – Types Of Art (Rebekah Gordon)
28 July 2017
Creating a Room of One’s Own – The Feminine Placemaking of “Womanhouse” (Shelby Maiden)
11 March 2018
Charles Cassar – An Artist of “Colour” (Louis Lagana)
21 March 2018
The Dance At The Barnes (Ayala Sella)
02 April 2018
How Political Art That Works…Works (Margot Mitchell-Nockowitz)
17 September 2019
Pussy Riot – Political Affect and Religious Feelings, Part 1 (Vasilina Orlova)
22 October 2019
Pussy Riot – Political Affect and Religious Feelings, Part 2 (Vasilina Orlova)
27 October 2019
Reflections On “Anarchist” Structures And Aesthetics In Cultural Collectives, Part 1 (Jeffrey Swartz)
14 January 2020
Reflections On “Anarchist” Structures And Aesthetics In Cultural Collectives, Part 2 (Jeffrey Swartz)
21 January 2020
Christian-Fiction
3 posts
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The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 1 (Paul Maltby)
28 February 2020
The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 2 (Paul Maltby)
09 March 2020
The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (Paul Maltby)
23 March 2020
Cinema
4 posts
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Mediation Into Remediation – The Impact Of The “Blockbuster” Industry On Visual Culture, Part 1 (Alice De Bourgoing)
24 June 2019
Mediation Into Remediation – The Impact Of The “Blockbuster” Industry On Visual Culture, Part 2 (Alice De Bourgoing)
07 July 2019
Participatory Reception – First Person Perspective In Horror Films And Video Games, Part 1 (Shelagh Rowan-Legg)
01 October 2019
Participatory Reception – First Person Perspective In Horror Films And Video Games, Part 2 (Shelagh Rowan-Legg)
15 October 2019
Conferences
1 posts
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Last Call For Registrations For Rocky Mountain/Southwest Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit
13 November 2017
Consumer-Culture
4 posts
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Shopping And The Design Of Mobile Apps As Inwardness (Colbey Reid)
30 August 2016
The Power of Innovative Storytelling in Consumer Marketing (Joy Steinberg)
02 September 2016
Treating Your In-Home Automated Concierge Like A Real Person (Brittany Scantland-Lall)
30 December 2016
How Stories Impact The Brain…And What That Can Mean For Brands (Joy Steinberg)
04 July 2017
Contemporary-Art
8 posts
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Lost Horizon – (Dis)location And Identity In Contemporary Tibetan Art (Sarah Magnatta)
31 January 2017
Degenerate Art and The Modern (Sue Wightman)
20 May 2018
The Politics Of Display – The Tate Modern And Ai WeiWei’s “Sunflower Seeds” (Marcelo de Melo)
28 May 2018
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 1 (Heather Stivison)
29 January 2019
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 2 (Heather Stivison)
07 February 2019
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 3 (Heather Stivison)
19 February 2019
Images Of Place And Territory In Contemporary Israeli-Jew And Palestinian Art, Part 1 (Yael Guilat)
17 April 2019
Images Of Place And Territory In Contemporary Israeli-Jew And Palestinian Art, Part 2 (Yael Guilat)
25 April 2019
Contemporary-Music
1 posts
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Heavy Metal As Surrogate Religion – Exploring The Metal Subculture (Katrina Lavender)
13 May 2018
Creative-Placemaking
2 posts
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Last Call For Registrations For Rocky Mountain/Southwest Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit
13 November 2017
Creating a Room of One’s Own – The Feminine Placemaking of “Womanhouse” (Shelby Maiden)
11 March 2018
Creative-Writing
1 posts
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Library Of Dreams – Bibliotherapy And The Beautiful Barrio (Joy Roulier Sawyer)
20 February 2017
Culture
5 posts
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“Drink ‘n Think” Symposia Revive Ancient Philosophical Tradition (Colbey Reid)
29 August 2016
Drinkin’ N’ Thinkin’ – Further Reflections (Colbey Reid)
30 August 2016
God Is Dead – Now All We Have Is Victimhood Culture (Miriam Wilson) – Part 1
19 February 2018
God Is Dead – Now All We Have Is Victimhood Culture (Miriam Wilson) – Part 2
27 February 2018
The Equisapien Encounter – Reading Enrique Dussel In Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” (Conor Ramón Rasmusen)
15 March 2019
Esotericism
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The Cultural Turn To The Material – Where The Crawdads Sing, Witches, And Japan, Part 2 (Marianne Kimura)
22 June 2020
Fashion
1 posts
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Professional Dress Codes Lack “Authenticity” For Millennial Generation (Rebekah Gordon)
07 November 2016
Film
15 posts
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Baz’s Bronx – Get Down Or Let Down? (Lachlan MacDowall)
29 November 2016
Gender And Sexuality In The Animated Films Of Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki, Part 1 (Hiroko Miyashita)
18 April 2018
Gender And Sexuality In The Animated Films Of Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki, Part 2 (Hiroko Miyashita)
26 April 2018
Gender And Sexuality In The Animated Films Of Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki, Part 3 (Hiroko Miyashita)
03 May 2018
The Equisapien Encounter – Reading Enrique Dussel In Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” (Conor Ramón Rasmusen)
15 March 2019
James Bond And Jack Sparrow – Literary Archetypes Of Contrasting Economic Eras (Marianne Kimura)
09 April 2019
Something To Do With A Girl Named Marla – Eros And Gender In Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Part 1 (Vernon Cisney)
01 August 2019
Something To Do With A Girl Named Marla – Eros And Gender In Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Part 2 (Vernon Cisney)
10 August 2019
Something To Do With A Girl Named Marla – Eros And Gender In Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Part 3 (Vernon Cisney)
20 August 2019
The Curse Of La Llorona, Part 1 (Bernadette Calafell And Stefanie Fajardo)
06 November 2019
The Curse Of La Llorona, Part 2 (Bernadette Calafell And Stefanie Fajardo)
13 November 2019
The Curse Of La Llorona, Part 3 (Bernadette Calafell And Stefanie Fajardo)
20 November 2019
Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 1 (Gavin Hurley)
16 December 2019
Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 2 (Gavin Hurley)
30 December 2019
“No Women Amongst Us” – Bare Life, Violence, And Gender in Byzantium (Jared Lacy)
14 February 2020
Global-Arts
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Global Art, Post-Colonialism And The End of Art History (Robert McDougall), Part 1
02 May 2020
Global Art, Post-Colonialism And The End of Art History (Robert McDougall), Part 2
10 May 2020
Higher-Education
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The Nexus of Dissensus (Victor Taylor)
29 August 2016
Is The Academy A Place for “Idiots”? (George Elerick)
29 August 2016
Academia’s Outer Limits (Michael O’Rourke)
30 August 2016
Humanities
2 posts
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Neoliberal Dreams And The Plight Of The Humanities (Carl Raschke)
19 December 2016
Neoliberal Dreams And The Plight Of The Humanities, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)
26 December 2016
Literature
12 posts
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Racing For The Prize, Part 1 (Michael Boughn)
10 November 2017
Racing For The Prize, Part 2 (Michael Boughn)
17 November 2017
A Cathartic Manifesto: Corporeality In James Joyce, Part 1 (Tim Royan)
23 October 2018
A Cathartic Manifesto: Corporeality in James Joyce, Part 2 (Tim Royan)
09 November 2018
The Cultural Turn To The Material – Where The Crawdads Sing, Witches, And Japan, Part 1 (Marianne Kimura)
08 June 2020
The Cultural Turn To The Material – Where The Crawdads Sing, Witches, And Japan, Part 2 (Marianne Kimura)
22 June 2020
Blanchot And Disaster (Roger Green)
09 July 2020
The Novel, Tragedy, And Sacrifice (Steven Dunn and Selah Saterstrom With Roger Green)
23 July 2020
Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 1 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)
07 September 2020
Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 2 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)
22 September 2020
Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 3 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)
06 October 2020
Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 4 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)
20 October 2020
Marketing
1 posts
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How Stories Impact The Brain…And What That Can Mean For Brands (Joy Steinberg)
04 July 2017
Music
5 posts
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Avant-Garde Jazz and the Posthuman (Roger Green)
15 October 2016
Schopenhauer And Coltrane – The Metaphysics Of Atheism Illumines “A Love Supreme” (Jon Avery)
24 October 2016
Heavy Metal As Surrogate Religion – Exploring The Metal Subculture (Katrina Lavender)
13 May 2018
Building The Pop Music Empire, Part 1 (Olivia Currin Duell)
06 October 2018
Building the Pop Music Empire, Part 2 (Olivia Currin Duell)
16 October 2018
Native-Americans
1 posts
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Popular Culture, Native Ontology, and the Misuse of Mascots (Kenneth Lokensgard)
30 August 2016
Painting
1 posts
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Beyond “Zombie Formalism” – Painting After The End Of Painting (Iwo Zmyślony)
21 November 2016
Philosophy
2 posts
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Longing For An Impossible Past – Derrida’s Of Grammatology And The Coronavirus, Part 1 (Jared Lacy)
11 August 2020
Longing For An Impossible Past – Derrida’s Of Grammatology And The Coronavirus, Part 2 (Jared Lacy)
25 August 2020
Photography
2 posts
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The Ambivalent Portrait – Locating Resistance And Compliance In The Moment Of Selfie Production, Part 1 (Harold Dalton)
14 April 2020
The Ambivalent Portrait – Locating Resistance And Compliance In The Moment Of Selfie Production, Part 2 (Harold Dalton)
26 April 2020
Poetry
4 posts
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From Shakespeare To Search Engines – Experimental Poetry Comes Of Age (Daniel Y. Harris)
31 October 2016
Slam Poetry Returns Literature To The People (Interview)
15 November 2016
“Cattle of the Lord” – An Interview with Poet Rosa Alice Branco (Millicent Borges Accardi)
11 September 2018
Cyberculture And The New Digital (“Xperimental”) Poetics – An Interview With Daniel Y. Harris And Irene Koronas (Esthesis Editors)
10 October 2018
Popular-Culture
5 posts
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Celebrities Becoming New Focus Of Religious Worship For “Non-Believing Believers” (Madison Tarleton)
06 December 2016
Childish Gambino On Blackness (Eric Washington)
06 February 2018
What Might Burning Man Say To Reflexive Christianity In The West?, Part 2 (John W. Morehead)
01 June 2019
Searching For The Soul In The Digital Age (Karli Brittz)
05 February 2020
The Ambivalent Portrait – Locating Resistance And Compliance In The Moment Of Selfie Production, Part 2 (Harold Dalton)
26 April 2020
Popular-Music
1 posts
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Heavy Metal As Surrogate Religion – Exploring The Metal Subculture (Katrina Lavender)
13 May 2018
Psychology-Of-Art
4 posts
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How Humor Works – A Clear Proposal For A Classic Question, Part 1 (E. Garrett Ennis)
08 December 2020
How Humor Works – A Clear Proposal For A Classic Question, Part 2 (E. Garrett Ennis)
22 December 2020
How Humor Works – A Clear Proposal For A Classic Question, Part 3 (E. Garrett Ennis)
13 January 2021
How Humor Works – A Clear Proposal For A Classic Question, Part 4 (E. Garrett Ennis)
27 January 2021
Shakespeare
1 posts
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Understand Shakespeare – Engaging the Critic, the Student and the Community (Joe Aldinger)
30 August 2016
Social-Justice
6 posts
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Anthony Bourdain Meets Mother Theresa – “Voluntourism” Goes Global (Joy Steinberg)
30 August 2016
God Is Dead – Now All We Have Is Victimhood Culture (Miriam Wilson) – Part 1
19 February 2018
God Is Dead – Now All We Have Is Victimhood Culture (Miriam Wilson) – Part 2
27 February 2018
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 1 (Heather Stivison)
29 January 2019
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 2 (Heather Stivison)
07 February 2019
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 3 (Heather Stivison)
19 February 2019
Sound-Theory
1 posts
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Sonorous Body (Yiğit Yeşillik)
20 May 2020
Travel
1 posts
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Anthony Bourdain Meets Mother Theresa – “Voluntourism” Goes Global (Joy Steinberg)
30 August 2016
Visual-Arts
1 posts
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Comics And The Public Arts (Sergio Figueiredo)
31 August 2016
Visual-Culture
1 posts
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Searching For The Soul In The Digital Age (Karli Brittz)
05 February 2020
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