Theorizing the Anthropocene – part 1
The following thoughts are part of a longer response I have been writing in response to comments on my PhD dissertation proposal on the Anthropocene, Monsters in the Greenhouse, which you can find...
Post-racial US myths
Just some random examples I ran across recently debunking the idea of a post-racial US… Found while looking for inspiring political speeches on YouTube tonight. Found on the sidewalk in Greenpoint, Brooklyn this...
2016: Deconstructing Dinesh D’Souza’s Right Wing Fantasies
[Updated 9/25/12 with extended fact checking of film at end of post] This post offers a media analysis and political commentary on Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie 2016: Obama’s America. I had assigned both...
Monsters in the Greenhouse: Risk, faith and science in the Anthropocene
In short, this project is looking at the concept of the Anthropocene, a scientific proposal to designate a new geologic epoch covering the past ~250 yrs that would mark the increasing impacts of...
“You Didn’t Build That” – Perpetuating the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Andrew Cline had a recent article in The Atlantic where he attacks Obama for a recent campaign speech where Obama made the following remark: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build...
On Being A Generalist
I recently spent a few days traveling with my parents, and during the course of one of our meals, my father made a comment that has stuck in my head, as it’s something...
