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It's an unpleasant, abominable idea, submitting something as delicate as...

Nov 19, 2009
It's an unpleasant, abominable idea, submitting something as delicate as culture to the rack of metrification.But here's why it's necessary. There's so much going on "out there" in culture, so many different people creating so many different...

Taking things as read, V, and the consumption of popular culture

Nov 18, 2009
I don't think that V, the science fiction series on ABC, is going make it.  Here's why.Popular culture demands of us that we take treat many things "as read."  We see the protagonist climbing out of bed in the morning.  We cut to a scene that shows...

Invading the world of the Mommy blogger

Nov 17, 2009
Are you watching Mad Men, the hit TV show?  Noticed that look of dazed or startled expression that sometimes flits across the Betty Draper's face?  I never see it in real life.As a hardworking anthropologist, I spend a lot of time doing interviews in...

Chuck Klosterman and the study of culture

Nov 16, 2009
Here's what Michael MacCambridge says about Chuck Klosterman's Eating the Dinosaur.Neil Postman, once argued--in the title of one of his books--that we are "amusing ourselves to death."  But Mr. Klosterman's relentlessly thoughtful prose makes a case...

Dan Wieden, Chief Culture Officer at Nike

Nov 12, 2009


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