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Graffiti Aesthetics: Five Easy Pieces

First published at The Valve in 2007. Even as Tim Burke had been calling for explicit and focused aesthetic commentary on popular culture, I was thinking of... Read more

The 17 September 2014 by Bbenzon
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Jersey City Graffiti 3: A Guide to Photos, Sites, and Links

This is the third part of a three-part article. Part 1 is here while Part 2 is here. I originally published it on Sept. 25, 2007 at The Valve. A lot has... Read more

The 27 September 2014 by Bbenzon
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Data Meets Durkheim

Ever since Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912), most scholars have assumed the collective rituals function to arouse emotions and bond... Read more

The 24 September 2014 by Cris
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Graffiti Aesthetics 2: Learning to See

This originally appeared at The Valve on August 18, 2007. Upon re-reading it I rather like it. I'd forgotten I'd undertaken this kind of analytic and descriptiv... Read more

The 18 September 2014 by Bbenzon
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Thoroughly Schopenhauerian Heroine

“Dying is certainly to be regarded as the real aim of life; at the moment of dying, everything is decided, which through the whole course of life was only... Read more

The 08 September 2014 by Emcybulska
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Jersey City Graffiti 1: The Story

This is the first part of a three-part article. It was originall posted at The Valve on Sept. 25, 2007. I always tell people that if you want to know what’s... Read more

The 21 September 2014 by Bbenzon
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TO WAR! Part 2: A Marx Brothers Analysis of America's War Craziness

Another old time good one. The post is from 2011, the movie from 1933. And, at this rate, the movie will still be relevant in 2033. Think we'll be over it by... Read more

The 11 September 2014 by Bbenzon
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Jersey City Graffiti 2: Analysis

This is the second part of a three-part article. Part 1 is here. It was originally posted to New Savanna on Sept. 25, 2007. Slum populations chilled on one... Read more

The 23 September 2014 by Bbenzon
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Graffiti Aesthetics 3: Stylistic Identity

This was originally published in The Valve on August 24, 2007. I want to arrive at an approach to the question: What's the point of a writer painter his or her... Read more

The 20 September 2014 by Bbenzon
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The Direction of Cultural Evolution, Macroanalysis at 3 Quarks Daily

As soon as I finished up my series of posts about Matt Jockers, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods Literary History, I set up a file on my Mac for further... Read more

The 22 September 2014 by Bbenzon
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