Monday, December 24, 2018
Monday, December 17, 2018
Week 13
I would go farther than this article and echo what others have said: it's no accident that colonial nostalgia is being weaponized by the wealthy against Mainland Communism. "Make Hong Kong Great Britain again" says it all, and so succinctly too.
This peek into the economics behind BUMBLEBEE helps contextualize it in the broader turn toward "progressive" female-focused mega-entertainment, and how that relates to downturns in both the toy and movie industry.
Reading between the lines of Bloomberg's virulent anti-Catalan bias, it's pretty plain to see that Catalonia has its own objectives that Spain is wisely trying to accommodate.
This peek into the economics behind BUMBLEBEE helps contextualize it in the broader turn toward "progressive" female-focused mega-entertainment, and how that relates to downturns in both the toy and movie industry.
Reading between the lines of Bloomberg's virulent anti-Catalan bias, it's pretty plain to see that Catalonia has its own objectives that Spain is wisely trying to accommodate.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Week 11
Sarah Jones recently gave a rundown of some prominent liberal conspiracy theorists on Twitter, with the offending tweets and their authors gathered here. She also linked to this unusually thorough essay on the nature of conspiracy thinking, which extrapolates from some overlapping case studies.
I felt sheepish recognizing that I've been sucked in by some of these people before, and that some of my thinking verges on conspiratorial. I do however hope my approach is dialogical rather than monological. That's part of the purpose of my blogpost roundups. I want to juxtapose the contradictions and see what results. Maybe that will mean finding new information that overwrites the old, or perhaps new information shows up wanting compared to what I've read before.
I think many people have suspected this, but it's nice to see it written so bluntly and persuasively: the more left-wing parties compromise, the better right-wing parties get at snatching those votes. On the other hand, parties that remain steadfastly leftist can fight off both right-wing and center-left challengers.
The idea of approaching Errol Morris' new book as insight into the author appeals to me. Not just because Morris sounds unhelpfully dogmatic about his side of the dispute, but also because I'm interested in works that lay bare their authors' beliefs.
I felt sheepish recognizing that I've been sucked in by some of these people before, and that some of my thinking verges on conspiratorial. I do however hope my approach is dialogical rather than monological. That's part of the purpose of my blogpost roundups. I want to juxtapose the contradictions and see what results. Maybe that will mean finding new information that overwrites the old, or perhaps new information shows up wanting compared to what I've read before.
I think many people have suspected this, but it's nice to see it written so bluntly and persuasively: the more left-wing parties compromise, the better right-wing parties get at snatching those votes. On the other hand, parties that remain steadfastly leftist can fight off both right-wing and center-left challengers.
The idea of approaching Errol Morris' new book as insight into the author appeals to me. Not just because Morris sounds unhelpfully dogmatic about his side of the dispute, but also because I'm interested in works that lay bare their authors' beliefs.
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