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Jean Erick Joassaint: My Hero
In September of 1985 I arrived at Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, NY a 5’10”, 115 pound string bean. I was a boy, full of spirit and confusion. I’ve always been torn between my capacity for deep and profound love … Continue reading
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In Love and Defiance
It would be inaccurate to call the collective malaise of November 9th a hangover. Much of the United States muddled through the day, fighting a sense of despair a lot more like the aftermath of September 11, 2001 than a long … Continue reading
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Medeta ga no yohoi
For the last several months NHK has been airing one of its very popular “asadora” telenovelas, called Massan. The drama is set in Japan’s Taisho period (1912 – 1926), a time when Japan was adjusting to a newly opened society, … Continue reading
To Protect and Tweet
There’s been some discussion recently of the NYPD’s initiative to educate members of the force in the best practices of social media. On more than one occasion, police officers have used their personal social media accounts to share controversial or … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Cities
Well…actually this is two tales of one city…or two tales from one block in one borough of one city…but you get the point. I routinely walk the length of Fordham University’s campus on the outside, along Fordham Road. As in … Continue reading
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The “Quantum Imaginary”
The term “global imaginary” is associated with Global Studies scholar Manfred B. Steger, who describes the phenomenon in his 2009 book “The Rise of the Global Imaginary and the Persistence of Ideology”: Let me suggest that there is, indeed, something … Continue reading
Let Me Clear My Throat
Recently, I’ve had occasion to teach the first several chapters of Joshua Meyrowitz‘ 1985 book “No Sense of Place.” The premise of the book is that new media produce new situations, if I might take the liberty of boiling an … Continue reading
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Mine/11
I was thinking about the anniversary of 9/11 last night with some classmates, and felt overcome with emotion about my memory of that day and the many difficult days after, watching loved ones of the victims hold up photos in … Continue reading
The Animal in Man
Warning: This is a critique of the new film “The Wolverine” and it includes spoilers. In 1982, as an 11-year old, I bought my first X-Men comic. It was issue #161, published in September of that year. Not long after … Continue reading
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Reading is Such a Bohr
[Niehls Bohr] meant to teach us, as have other wise people, that it is better to have access to more than one profound truth. To be able to hold comfortably in one’s mind the validity and usefulness of two contradictory … Continue reading
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Mike Plugh 