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Archive for June, 2009
Captain "I Owe": James Howard Kunstler on Michael Jackson and the Recession
Though generally reluctant to pile on the conspicuously deceased, we at Generation Bubble couldn’t allow some recent remarks by notorious peak-oiler and secular apocalyptician James Howard Kunstler escape our readers’ notice. On his blog, the colorfully titled Clusterf*ck Nation, he observes Michael Jackson’s passing. But Kunstler, playing Antony to Jackson’s Caesar, wishes to bury the [...]
Bubble Culture: MC Hammer Flash Mob Proves Capitalism Is 2 Legit 2 Quit
A question we at Generation Bubble ask ourselves time and again is: When will Americans emerge into consciousness of their real situation? Each day’s news cycle presents a smorgasbord of recreancy, infamy, fraud, casual brutality and magnified trivia. Wars dribble on without ever petering out, wealth flows out of treasuries and pockets without ever flowing [...]
The Divergence of the Twain: Fifty Years of C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures"
The blog ideonexus recently presented some musings on C. P. Snow’s famous 1959 lecture, “The Two Cultures.” Snow, who wore two professional hats (scientist and novelist), argued that both the matter and methodology of science and the humanities stood irreconcilably opposed; because science, which places supreme important on the scientific method and the reproducibility of [...]
A Humanities Halliburton: The Govindaraj Sisters' Minerva
A reader brought to our attention this article in the March 10, 2009 edition of The Buffalo News. It features the Govindaraj sisters, founders of Minerva, a company which aims to deliver “education in the humanities … to people whose careers lie in business, nonprofits, or in education at the secondary and elementary levels.” Sisters [...]
Ur Gr8est Fan (4 2day N E Way): "Microstardom," "Tactical Fandom" and the Attention Economy
Over at the P2P Foundation site, Michel Bauwens presents this meditation by one Julian Kücklich. Kücklich considers how social media have engendered “microstardom” and “tactical fandom,” twin phenomena that, as he writes, “[call] into question the classical power relationship between fans and stars.” This “classical power relationship,” the point of departure of his discussion, Kücklich [...]
Let's Kill Off the Copyright: The Mellon Seminar’s Digital Humanities Manifesto and the Future of Intellectual Property
Aprópòs our previous discussion of digital humanities comes UCLA Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities’s recently issued manifesto. (Actually, it’s the second the Seminar has issued — version 2.0.) Like all manifestos, the Mellon Seminar’s is by turns oracular, confrontational and unclear. Manifestos have always been more about effect than exegesis, and this is particularly true [...]
I Peggior Fabbri: Millenial Versifiers and the Decline of Poetry
For today’s post we at Generation Bubble hand the reins over to a guest editor, a certain individual who came to us looking to air his opinion on contemporary poetry. Emboldened by our tangle with poet Annie Finch a month ago, we were eager to jump back into this subject to see what further controversy [...]
Destructive Creation: BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis on Internet Disintermediation and the Rise of Efficiency
Via Jos Schuurmanns’s site comes this post by Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine. In it, Jarvis basically offers a précis of his book, What Would Google Do?, a manifesto for the rapidly approaching post-scarcity age. (Irony: Jarvis has authorized no preview on Google Books.) Jarvis’s thesis is that Amazon, craigslist, eBay and Google have radically challenged [...]
An Embarrassment of Riches: Digital Humanists and the Rise of “Distant Reading”
Over at the blog, Clio Machine, proprietor Sterling Fluharty surveys the ongoing debate concerning the humanities’ relative worth in what Zbigniew Brzezinski famously dubbed “the Technotronic Era.” On this issue, Generation Bubble maintains the position that the humanities — or, more specifically, the protocols and procedures of academic humanities — find themselves in jeopardy; because [...]
Their Vegetable Love: Zombie Banks and the Advent of Japan's "Herbivore Men"
Japan has of late been experiencing an explosion in population of a native ruminant — “herbivore men.” Dubbed this by Maki Fukasawa, a Japanese culture columnist, herbivore men are remarkable for their impecunity, thrift, fastidiousness, and, most bizarrely, their asexuality. CNN.com reports on the etymology of this curious epithet: “In Japan, sex is translated as [...]
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