Another Žižek essay, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," from 2001. Also on my reading list. Looks more closely at the images of violence and devastation and their role in the popular, post-9/11 imagination.

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Charles Taylor's rejection of secularism: how valid?

John Patrick Diggins (a brilliant scholar) reviews Taylor's "A Secular Age" for the NYTBR. He is courteous and respectful but ultimately fairly negative on Taylor's apparent dependence on neo-Hegelian "dialectical fantasies."

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Marx, "Introduction to a critique of political economy" (excerpt)

This (the clipped section) is a great quotation. I first saw it here: http://worldcat.org/oclc/68133035

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Critique of religious-studies public school curriculum

Critical response to a seminar on teaching with the theme "Religion in American History," from a conservative Christian perspective (from EdWatch.org). For the record, I think the critique is misguided, but it's still an important one.

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Doris Salcedo's "Shibboleth" (installation, Tate Modern, Oct. 2007) - a jetpak

A small collection of links on Doris Salcedo's new installation, "Shibboleth," in the Tate Modern, featured on Buzzfeed.

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Typotheque: Cult of the Ugly by Steven Heller

Overview of various perspectives on "ugly" graphic design.

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Doc Searls Weblog · Go from hell

Doc Searls lets loose: whatever you might say, the whole business of marketing is fucking evil. It's the Matrix. It's all about controlling what you do by controlling what you think. Anyone who tells you different is an Agent.

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The original critical-theorist trading cards!

Download, print, & swap!

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Mark Edmundson, "Defender of the Faith?" (NYT Magazine, The Way We Live Now, on Freud and religion, Sept. 9, 2007)

Comments on Freud's Moses and Monotheism , a late work in which the master appears to give some grudging recognition to the value of religion. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5Rjez93lb Late in life— he was in his 80s, in fact —Sigmund

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'Tolkien was not a writer' - A.N. Wilson, Telegraph

The most reliable-looking source I've found thus far for the Hugo Dyson line, "Oh no, not another fucking elf!"

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US media distort religion by painting it as uniformly conservative

I have yet to read the full report, but their statistics-based content analysis would seem to bear out my general impressions. U.S. news media tend to treat religion as a conservative force, but this means leaving out the voices of maybe two-thirds of rel

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Mother Goose rhymes, their history and meaning

Explanations and background information for many well-known and less-well-known Mother Goose rhymes.

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This Modern World on distrust of science

Screw science! Why should we believe what a bunch of eggheads say, anyhow.

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Jeff Sharlet: "keeping it unreal" - the concept of "authentic" pop music

Interesting review by TheRevealer.org's Jeff Sharlet of a new book critiquing the concept of "authenticity" in popular music and culture. Most of what we think of as "authentic" (for example, Delta blues) has complex roots and has been carefully shaped fo

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Umberto Eco on "Ur-Fascism" (1995)

A cached version of Umberto Eco's 1995 article (from the NYRB) listing the fourteen components of "eternal Fascism." These include, inter alia, traditionalism and anti-modernism; irrationalism and contempt for culture and critical thought; a cult of actio

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