Category: Cultural Studies

January 17, 2013

Jonathan Kahn – Is the Patent Office Forcing Race into Biotechnology Patents?

One of the most significant things you’ll learn from Jonathan Kahn’s new book, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age, is that racial discourse surfaces within most all of the vertically integrated...

January 16, 2013

An Interview with Race in a Bottle author Jonathan Kahn

Earlier this week, we posted on BiDil, the first FDA-approved drug with a race-specific indication on its label. In the following interview with Columbia University Press, Jonathan Kahn, author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized...

January 15, 2013

The Story of BiDil: the FDA's First Race-Specific Drug

Hamline University Law Professor Jonathan Kahn has become a prominent critical voice in the last decade on the controversial injection of racial discourse into American medical practice (particularly in the realm of genetically tailored drugs). In the following post, he...

December 17, 2012

Mike Chasar — Jingle All the Way: Saint Nick and the Poetry of Santa's Ring Toss

In the following post, Mike Chasar, author of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America, explores the ways in which a poem related to a Coca-Cola holiday promotion exposes how the commercial and non-commercial aspects of the holidays...

December 11, 2012

Whitney Strub — The Politics of Porn, Part 2: The Culture (Non-) Wars

“For that matter, Christian Grey of the Fifty Shades trilogy would be hard to pick out from a lineup of the ‘Opportunity Society’ wing of the GOP; I picture him with Scott Brown abs, Paul Ryan vocal inflection, and Romney...

September 28, 2012

Daniel Herwitz on How Barack Obama Has Drawn Upon Abraham Lincoln

“Obama is a figure with the screen presence of a film star (like Diana). Palin is not, she is the quintessential TV actor, from sitcom, talk show, reality TV.”—Daniel Herwitz In the chapter, “Tocqueville on the Bridge to Nowhere,” from...

September 27, 2012

Daniel Herwitz on The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption

In addition to Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony, we’ve been lucky enough to be be the publisher for other books by Daniel Herwitz. In addition to Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto, and The Don Giovanni...

September 26, 2012

Interview with Daniel Herwitz, Part II

“Heritage began as a secular religion and is now a battleground between the forces of recognition, politics and commerce. It is where art, culture, history, politics and markets meet. Little could be more interesting than this.”—Daniel Herwitz Here is the...

September 25, 2012

Daniel Herwitz on What Makes Heritage Worth Talking About

“Through heritage, marketed in political campaigns and filtered through dense layers of American media both Barack Obama and Sarah Palin become celebrity figures gifted with special powers.”—Daniel Herwitz In this first part of a two-part interview, Daniel Herwitz discusses one...

June 13, 2012

An interview with Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, editors of Poetry of the Taliban

Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn discuss their book in an interview with The Atlantic.

June 11, 2012

Santiago Zabala — Nietzsche on WikiLeaks

Santiago Zabala looks at Wikileaks through the thought of Nietzsche.

May 31, 2012

Michael Marder — The idea of following in the age of Twitter

Michael Marder reveals that “following” on social networks is not as much a matter of individual choice as it might at first appear.