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Kapow! Zap! Splat! How Comics Make Sound On The Page
By Victor Araneda Jure/The Conversation
Typically, comics are considered a silent medium. But while they don't come with an aural soundtrack, comics have a unique grammar for sound.
From Wolverine's SNIKT! when unsheathing his claws, to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in The Death of Stalin (later made into a film) the use of "textual audio" invites comics readers to hear with their eyes.
Posted on June 10, 2021
A People's History Of ThanksgivingWhere Is The Gold?With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.Continue reading "A People's History Of Thanksgiving" » Posted on November 28, 2013 |
Chicago Blog Review: Fruit SlingerA welcome blast of summer-friendly food porn on a daily basis.Continue reading "Chicago Blog Review: Fruit Slinger" » Posted on August 6, 2009 |
Siteless
By Popkin/Boing Boing
Imagine Learning from Las Vegas as illustrated by Chris Ware.Posted on June 1, 2021
The Disordered Cosmos
By Joshua Roebke/Undark
Prescod-Weinstein not only narrates her struggle to become a cosmologist, she advocates for all peoples whom physicists have undervalued. She praises the assistants and janitors, mostly people of color, whose labor permits theorists to ponder the universe daily, because "part of science is emptying the garbage."Posted on May 27, 2021
Reassessing Mandela
By Colin Bundy and William Beinart/The Conversation
The suggestion that Mandela single-handedly achieved democracy is as intellectually threadbare as its mirror image: that he was responsible for the failure to transform social and economic relations after 1994.Posted on May 12, 2021
Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
By SIU Press
Far removed from their native homelands, they found new promise in rural Illinois. These men, neighbors along the quiet Stateline Road in Lake County, decide to join the fighting at its most dangerous hour. The bonds of war become then the bonds of their new national identity.Posted on May 6, 2021
Imagining What Alien Life Might Look Like
By Emily Cataneo/Undark
After all, aliens might be telekinetic, or all-knowing, or little green men with big heads, but why? Some outcomes are simply not likely, like a hyper-intelligent alien floating through the universe and philosophizing for no reason. Others are quite likely.Posted on April 13, 2021
The Quest For Papa's Perfect Sentence
By David Rutter
Though the imitation was not deliberate, I took no solace. I knew it to be real. I could write better sentences as a fake Hemingway than I could write as the real me. That revelation was fearsome.Posted on April 8, 2021
To Destroy White Supremacy, Interrogate The Canon
By Lorena German/The Hechinger Report
If we want to dismantle white supremacy in the imagination and work against the idea of Whiteness as property, we need to see how supremacist values have operated in our schools. Specifically, in canonical texts.Posted on March 31, 2021
Southern Illinois' Snake Road
By SIU Press
"Snake Road is the only road in the world closed every year (from March 15 - May 15, and again from September 1 - October 30) for its biannual migration of snakes and other reptiles."Posted on March 16, 2021
After Democracy
By UIC
"What if there is something better out there, and technology can help us uncover a long-hidden path to it? We change and so does our technology, but we cling to past iterations of democracy like a dream we desperately try to remember after we wake up. Life is not static. Neither is democracy."Posted on March 11, 2021
Dark Participation: When Journalists And Readers Engage
By Jacob L. Nelson/The Conversation
What's the point?Posted on March 4, 2021
The Unintended Consequences Of Taming Nature
By John Schwartz/Undark
As she puts it, this is a book "about people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems."Posted on February 27, 2021
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