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Comment on This Wall Wasn’t Dead: Public Art in Atlanta by Ryan Reft

Ryan Reft — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:39:04 +0000

Zed,
most people don’t follow Clement.

Comment on This Wall Wasn’t Dead: Public Art in Atlanta by zed

zed — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:36:24 +0000

I don’t follow, clement.

Comment on Narratives of Collapse: Melancholia, Take Shelter, and Children of Men by “Upstream” Battle: How a Filmmaker Makes an Incredibly Weird Film in 2013 – Tropics of Meta

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:57:22 +0000

[...] cause-and-effect with a dark and foreboding series of shots that almost echo Chris Marker’s La Jetee in their frozen, austere, and emotionless character, virtually a flow of discrete [...]

Comment on Time, Fate, and the History of the Future in “Looper” by “Upstream” Battle: How a Filmmaker Makes an Incredibly Weird Film in 2013 – Tropics of Meta

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:52:15 +0000

[...] a volley against the mainstream, like Rian Johnson’s underrated action-sci-fi-time-travel effort Looper, but he decided to use his newfound notoriety and limited capital to do something much bigger, much [...]

Comment on Dog Days Classics: Said Said What? Orientalism and the Other by useful reference

useful reference — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:24:53 +0000

I do not know whether it’s just me or if perhaps everyone else experiencing problems with your site. It appears as though some of the written text within your content are running off the screen. Can someone else please comment and let me know if this is happening to them too? This could be a issue with my web browser because I’ve had this happen
before. Kudos

Comment on An Information Security Analyst’s Take on CISPA by Security Metrics Management: How to Manage the Costs of an Assets Protection Program Reviews | WWW.MPROINFO.COM

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:46:22 +0000

[...] – vulnerability, security assessmentCongressman Issa: Congress Must Oversee Executive BranchAn Information Security Analyst’s Take on CISPA – Tropics of Meta .recentcomments a{display:inline !important;padding:0 !important;margin:0 [...]

Comment on Dog Days Classics: Said Said What? Orientalism and the Other by London Calling: Paul Gilroy, Dick Hebdige, and British Multiculturalism – Tropics of Meta

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:46:13 +0000

[...] antecedents that contributed to the growth of antiracism movements of Pan Africanism and beyond. Edward Said famously worried about similar tendencies in anti-colonial nationalist movements, believing many [...]

Comment on We’re All the Same Except that We’re Not: A Primer on Multiculturalism by London Calling: Paul Gilroy, Dick Hebdige, and British Multiculturalism – Tropics of Meta

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:46:07 +0000

[...] Britain’s imperial and colonial past remains the key to an effective multiculturalism. Much as Lisa Lowe connected Asian American culture and immigration with American interventions in Southeast and Far [...]

Comment on Subculture Rub: Tracing the Winding Path of Street Art by Wheatpaste in Hyattsville |

Wheatpaste in Hyattsville | — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:50:46 +0000

[...] blog post on Tropics of Meta further identified him as Steven M. Cummings, an art photographer and 2010 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of [...]

Comment on The Contested Space of the Victorian Vagina: The Myth of Vibrators and Hysteria Therapy by The March 2013 History Carnival: Good Vibrations | Andrewdevenney.net

The March 2013 History Carnival: Good Vibrations | Andrewdevenney.net — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:33:34 +0000

[...] To start off, several nominations this month touched on a broadly defined theme of British and American history. For instance, at Tropics of Meta, Lauren MacIvor Thompson explores the historiographical literature surrounding the supposed use of vibrators and sexual release as a “cure” for hysteria in Victorian women, in a blog post entitled “The Contested Space of the Victorian Vagina: The Myth of Vibrators and Hysteria Therapy.̶… [...]