Cultural Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw

After receiving his prognosis, I can only wonder if Bowie sat alone in a quiet, dark room and listened for a long, dark time to Joy Division, that bitter salve for mortal dread and imminent collapse, that band that he himself inspired. "Lazarus" opens as if he had. Stark and high bass notes clip from "She's

"A gun is the jaws of an idea." These words came to me as I was wrestling to develop my personal ethics about war. I was trying to connect a shooter's intention to a bullet hitting someone. It's rudimentary, but we work within our frameworks as we develop our maturing ideas. This idea about ideology and gun came to me during

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=soR996AcbJQ​ This story from The Moth entitled "Rescue Mission" about a young actress in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in 1988 completely seized me.

I am suffering what I call "gun fatigue" and I believe that I am not alone. It's the exhaustion that comes from grief over so much death, the feeling of helplessness of both the direct ability to change anything and the indirect ability to see things changed. I would not be surprised if what I