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 Analysis“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.”
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Pardon the absence, but Portugal and Italy and I apparently did not equal any kind of efficiency. Back to the real world and hopefully an interesting season ahead of [...]
Robert emailed me his latest submission to share with us which I’ve posted below, along with a note that he’s graciously mailed me a copy of his most recent publication, Travels Inside the Archive.
Today is St. John’s Eve in Denmark. So a timely and always much appreciated submission (cosmic connection) it is.
I wish I could [...]
This week will be a small one. For Friday, I need to learn the basics of French Theory, and how to discuss it without applying it to anything but itself. So I am writing to you from the non-existent centre of Derrida’s ramblings, as of now, but starting this Friday at exactly 3pm I will [...]
Tagged Explosives, Father's Day, Literature, NovelsAs 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 floating [...]
Whether one agrees or not, the notion of Queer Theory had a significant impact on literary studies in the eighties and nineties. The most famous (notorious?) book on the subject, though not the most exhaustive, was written by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and published in 1990. Epistemology of the Closet argued, in very broad terms, that [...]
Tagged Column, Culture, Danish, Literature, Queer Theory, The Da Vinci CodeHi all.
This weekly column is an attempt at creating some sort of loose “index” that’ll make things a bit easier to fathom. I’ll try to put together a brief run-down of interesting matter floating around in the media, this with an emphasis on the literary. What follows is basically a short blurp on each item, [...]
Although we’ve rather recently upgraded Wordpress and changed america adrift’s template, I am looking for something else. I think the feedback on the current template has been positive overall. What’s your take? I quite like the clean simple feel of this skin, but the editing functions have tormented me. I don’t know if it’s Wordpress [...]
Tagged Blogging nightmaresHere is my latest academic contribution to the project of enlightenment in the form of outpouring of textbooks.
BETWEEN GAZES: FEMINIST, QUEER AND OTHER FILMS is a text book in which I introduce key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film. My point of departure is in the question “what do you want from me?” Although [...]
Ever since switching over to Wordpress I’ve wanted to find a new template. First, we really needed a facelift as the old template was “worn” and “dated.” But I also wanted to avoid the fate of Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) and Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn).
Wordpress keeps getting more powerful and most of the newer templates [...]