HeyJaredNot Cultural Studies
Studying media and culture, without doing "cultural studies." Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Mr. King’s Opus (opens the original)
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Recently Annie Dillard died. It was odd, because just a few days before I had bought Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and was reading through it when she died. The reason I bought it was that it had been assigned in high school, in my favorite class, with my favorite teacher, Mr. King. The class was a year-long one called “Humanities I and II.” It also included science topics. It was basically Mr. King’s tour d’horizon of culture, anything that he liked.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href=
Clamming up? (opens the original)
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Every year when FIRE releases its rankings of free speech climate at US universities, there is a bit of anticipation to see if we (IU) will be the worst. This year we rose slightly, leading to jokes like “Yay! We’re #256!”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="
Where are the new shows? (opens the original)
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It’s getting to be that time of year when one can remember that it used to be that time of year when the new TV season would be rolling out. I still have some fond memories of that period, and later, as someone who studied the social and cultural impacts of TV, I had some professional interest in programming trends. Nowadays the “season” doesn’t seem to mean that much, but I still like to pay attention to one aspect of it. That is: Whether there will be any new multicam sitcoms that might be goo
By their tweets shall ye know them... (opens the original)
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Saying and doing outrageous things for public consumption is the stock in trade of the Real Housewives television franchise, surely one of the most entertaining television products ever devised, so much so that it entirely sustains a single cable network, one of the few legacy cable networks that is still doing well. Doing insults in public and on social media adds to the spice and ratings of a TV show, and now we’re finding, out here in the cornfields of Indiana, that it can also add fun to our
Collective groceries vs. Amish veggies (opens the original)
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Recently I stopped in Orleans, IN to get some vegetables. Peter is an Amish man that sells produce out of his buggy on Saturdays. I generally notice him there starting in August, and Peter says that he will be there “until frost.” I bought a big pile of beans, two huge tomatoes, two large cucumbers, and a box of peppers. “Four dollars,” Peter said. I’ve been there before, so I wasn’t shocked at the low, low price, but still… The vegetables are fine quality. I don’t know exactly which growing pra
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