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About a week ago I wrote a post adding to my ongoing series on puerility, observing how the cultural phenomenon of the FiveThirtyEight blog...

Needless to say, I am fascinated by the recent Silver Wars, which erupted, oddly, in the midst of a gigantic hurricane bearing down on the ...

A last (?) note on Moonrise Kingdom 's puerility. Stephen Crane is a master of the particular version of puerility; I think in particu...

I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom , which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten...

[ Spoilers for Moonrise Kingdom.] ** There is hardly a clearer example of Foucauldian power than the Boy Scouts—a most codified set of ...

Shorn of speech, incapable of standing upright, hesitating over the objects of its interest, not able to calculate its advantages, not sensi...

Via Ben Friedlander on Twitter, I was recently treated to Anne Boyer's " Damnatio Memoriae ." Please read it--it's short a...

A wise friend of mine once explained the rule to me: adults can swear, and children can swear, but they can't swear in front of each oth...

If we could text-mine the internets of the last few days for the correlation between the words "n-gram" and "fun," I...

Oh boy. ( So to speak. ) Fall semester is in full swing, and and I'm having to put Gertrude Stein and Susy Clemens on hold for a while i...

I feel like my earlier reading of Cee Lo's "Fuck You" is very much backed up by the developmental narrative (from childhood t...

[Welcome, readers from 33 1/3 !] There are a lot of f-bombs in this post. Just saying. Puerility is a powerful mode for a number of the aut...

I couldn't help noticing this image, tiny as it is. It's a graph showing changes in the number of U.S. jobs over time. Even though...

From Burke and Kant, we're used to seeing the sublime opposed to the beautiful. But Longinus writes (in this 1698 translation of On the ...