April 23, 2014

Images from the Video Revolution

In Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium, Michael Z. Newman examines how video has been seen in both a utopian and a negative light in terms of its cultural impact. Newman also includes a variety of images that...

April 23, 2014

RV-topia: Gatornationals at the Gainesville Raceway

The following post is by James Twitchell, author of Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture: “The democracy of the RV parking lot may be the last of the much-eulogized American Exceptionalism.”—James Twitchell Every March the small north Florida town...

April 22, 2014

Live Video, Then and Now — Michael Z. Newman

The following post is by Michael Z. Newman, author of Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium: “The non-linearity of videotape, digital recording, and services like Netflix and its rivals also speak to a long-standing fantasy, of media that...

April 22, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Power of Tolerance, The Cinema of Agnes Varda and More New Books!

The following books are now available: The Power of Tolerance: A Debate Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (Now available in paper) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o The Cinema of Agnès Varda: Resistance and Eclecticism Delphine...

April 21, 2014

Upcoming Umami Events

Over the next week, Ole Mouritsen will be appearing coast-to-coast to talk about his new book: Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste. Below is a list of upcoming events for Umami, a book which Harold McGree calls “a...

April 18, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the world of academic publishing.

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 18, 2014

Gabriel García Márquez as Journalist

The recent passing of Gabriel García Márquez has brought praise from all over the world for his literary work. However, García Márquez was also well-known for his work as a journalist. In his essay for Second Read: Writers Look Back...

April 17, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: A Conversation with Carlos Fuentes

Read an interview with Carlos Fuentes from Dalkey Archive Press!

April 17, 2014

The RV in Popular Culture: From Lucy to Walter White

In Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture, James Twitchell also explores the depiction of the RV in the movies. Up until the 1960s, Twitchell argues, the RV was “an object of much interest and even yearning”. However, as “the...

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...