Keith Bendis
Bierce's cynicism of our institutions, the rich, religion, and common beliefs could have been written yesterday.
View ArticleLars Iyer
In my current novels, the satyr play is interwoven with the tragedy. Seriousness and fun are intertwined, philosophy, the former queen of the sciences is one with its jester …
View Article20 4 420: Irie Edition
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal.
View ArticleWendy Kline
What the feminist health movement really did was change the way that we understand evidence and experience – and actually the knowledge of the body. Individual experience can be as legitimate as...
View ArticleMatthew Hongoltz-Hetling
On some level, Vermont remains the arugula-chomping hippie at the farmers' market, while New Hampshire is still a guy asserting his right to mow the lawn while naked.
View ArticleAndrea Muehlebach
You have to look beyond the monster itself in order to understand what it actually means.
View ArticleDispatches from SXSW: Corporate Branding, Social Media, Tasty Food
South by Southwest (SXSW, or more annoyingly, “South by”) has been on for about a week now, but a change is definitely well underway. For one thing, the packs of 20-somethings roving downtown Austin...
View ArticleSpurious – Lars Iyer
The levels of depravity and viciousness that W. is able to reach through his assessment of Lars and himself truly merit the exalted categories of cosmic, transcendental, and messianic.
View ArticleThree Ways to Respond to Your Bully: The Failings of the Modern University
Though strange bedfellows, these books can go some distance in repairing the fractured relationship between the university and society at large.
View ArticleColin Marshall
"I don’t see my work in relation to the university at all; if I’m lucky, I will continue not to see it that way. Some thrive in academia, but I find it brings out the worst of my slothful, autistic,...
View ArticleLove’s Work – Gillian Rose
It was in New York, in an intellectual and cultural ferment consisting of rock music, contemporary German philosophy, LSD, homosexuality, and Abstract Expressionism, that Rose began her Lehrjar – her...
View ArticleAlan Partridge’s Long Shadow
I think it better to echo the sentiment voiced by Tom Scharpling on this week’s Best Show on WFMU: “You put [The Office] up against Alan Partridge, it beats that thing up down and every which way….Viva...
View ArticleCombined and Uneven Apocalypse – Evan Calder Williams
Just think back to the feared “zombie banks” of the 2008 financial collapse, or to the current firesale of Greek industries, which has coincided with a renewed focus on occupying and repurposing urban...
View ArticleHow to Master the Culture Wars in Two Weeks
Presenting "How to Master X in Two Weeks," a shortcut to projecting erudition and insight into the most pressing political issues of the day. In this installment we focus on two recent publications...
View ArticleHow to Master Not Feeling So Bad About Your Employment Prospects in Two Weeks
In part two of our end of summer series “How to Master X in Two Weeks,” Michael Schapira discusses three books addressing what many of you may have been doing this summer: trying to figure out why good...
View ArticleTwo Steps Back and Three Steps Forward: How to Master 1960s French Utopianism...
I must confess to suffering from some pretty serious 1968 romanticization – and despite inspiring recent student protests in California, Chile, and London, the soixant-huitards of Paris remain my...
View ArticleHouse of Holes – Nicholson Baker
Perhaps in the economy of desire, this is what capitalism with a human face looks like in its most utopian form.
View ArticleFull Stop at Hofstra University
Full Stop Contributing Editors Michael Schapira and David Backer will be giving a talk about French philosopher Jacques Ranciere tomorrow at 2:55 PM. Howard Dean will also be there, obviously.
View ArticleThis is what democracy looked like:
One encouraging aspect of the recent interest in occupation is that it has not been domesticated as a “campus phenomenon.” However, this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be looking with interest at what...
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