Category: Cultural Studies

April 18, 2014

The Future of the RV — James Twitchell

In “The Rise and Fall of the RV in America,” the concluding chapter to Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture, James Twitchell looks at the future of the RV, its need to change and its continuing promise to offer...

April 16, 2014

Slab City

“Slabs is Burning Man with a vulture overhead. It looked to me like the end of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.”—James Twitchell As described in Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture, the camping site is an important part...

April 15, 2014

The RV Through History — Images from Winnebago Nation

The following are images that illuminate the evolution of the RV from the “Gypsy Van” at the beginning of the twentieth century to the iconic Winnebago. The images, of course, come from this week’s featured book Winnebago Nation: The RV...

March 13, 2014

LINCOLN: Sacrifice, Family, and Politics

As part of our ongoing feature of Paul W. Kahn’s Finding Ourselves at the Movies, we’re delighted to share a guest post from the author himself on Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln. Don’t forget to enter our book giveaway for...

July 26, 2013

Frederick Cooper: How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be?

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, the final day of this week’s feature, we have an excerpt from Frederick Cooper’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “How Global Do We...

July 25, 2013

Cemil Aydin: Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the "Muslim World"

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we have an excerpt from Cemil Aydin’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the ‘Muslim World.’”...

July 24, 2013

Samuel Moyn: Global Intellectual Life Past and Present

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we are cross-posting a short article by Samuel Moyn, originally published on Interdisciplines, which uses David Mitchell’s novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob...

July 23, 2013

Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori: Approaches to Global Intellectual History

Read an excerpt from “Approaches to Global Intellectual History,” by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, the first chapter of GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, edited by Moyn and Sartori.

March 28, 2013

Katerina Kolozova on The Real in Contemporary Philosophy

This week we are featuring the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture series, edited by Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey Robbins, and Slavoj Zizek. Remember to enter our Book Giveaway to win FREE copies of The Incident at...

March 27, 2013

A Q&A with Insurrections Series Editor Jeffrey Robbins

This week we are featuring the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture series, edited by Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey Robbins, and Slavoj Zizek. Also check out Insurrections on Pinterest! Today, we have a Q & A with...

March 26, 2013

An Editorial and Ontological Insurrection, by Santiago Zabala

This week we are featuring the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture series, edited by Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey Robbins, and Slavoj Zizek. Remember to enter our Book Giveaway to win FREE copies of The Incident at...

March 25, 2013

Insurrections on Pinterest

This week we are featuring the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture series, edited by Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey Robbins, and Slavoj Zizek. Remember to enter our Book Giveaway to win FREE copies of The Incident at...