BAGnewsNotes is simply one of the most interesting communities in the online progressive landscape. Michael Shaw, a clinical psychologist by trade, not only provides daily, intelligent deconstructions of US political visual culture but has also built a dynamic community where citizens, activists, academics, political analysts and photographers all interact in creating compelling multivocal critiques of [...]
Tagged Photography, Visual AnalysisAs you’ve noticed we have a new blogger on board our little blog adrift. Daniel Logan joins us to write our weekly Midweek Diary Rescue: Literary Edition. He explains the series, now four blog posts old (he refers to them as columns), as “an attempt at creating some sort of loose ‘index’ of “interesting matter [...]
Tagged Blogging, Logan's RunI wanted to send a shout out to the crew at Bread and Wine Culture in H.M.S. Peg. I’m also reminded of a book about the history of cod my brother Scott is fond of quoting. He was a very serious fish monger. So best of luck with the codfish wooing. Given that I’ve finished [...]
While I was out Containing Multitudes linked to an interesting article in Times Higher Education about academic blogging in the UK. I imagine Denmark lags well behind the US as well. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see a state of blogging in American Studies? A quick superficial search on Google today produces a list of [...]
As you all must be aware, the great Paul Newman recently passed on. Katie McFarlane, a graduate student? at UEA has just joined the CM blog as their first contributer with a tribute to Mr. Newman, News: Remembering Paul Newman. Drop by and visit our friends across the North Sea “little pond.” They’re just a [...]
Be careful what you wish for. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was an earnest neophyte feminist at Vassar, earnestly debating the meanings of feminism, sexism, and choice, I used to wish, earnestly, that we would have a political campaign that actually discussed these issues. And this year I finally got [...]
Recently we at The Atlantic Community have been honored by a bit of attention from the excellent photo journalism and public culture blog No Caption Needed. NCN is run by Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites who authored one of the only sustained books charting the emergent field of cultural iconology, No Caption Needed: Iconic [...]