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Pop Culture Criticism by Natalie Luhrs

December 5, 2014

Links: 12/05/14

Circle of Flight, Chris Maynard

Circle of Flight, Chris Maynard

I’m cleaning out my backlog of links this week–brace yourselves.

  • The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud
  • Some of Bach’s great masterpieces were composed by his wife Edit: it has been pointed out to me that this is generally considered to be a bogus theory, so read this with a giant grain of salt. I think it’s interesting to think about, though.
  • On Kindness
  • Can Chris Rock Make the Leap to Leading Man?
  • Chris Rock on Ferguson, Cosby, and Obama
  • Dear male feminist
  • Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall
  • “We all feel sad, Big Bird”: When Sesame Street confronted death
  • The Circumference of Despair: On Depression and Language
  • World Fantasy Awards: What Did I Say? This was such an amazing moment–I’m so glad I was able to be there in person.
  • Some thoughts on the politics of trolling.
  • The New Identity Media Manifesto
  • All Dressed Up For Mars and Nowhere to Go
  • The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare’s Histories in the Age of Netflix
  • TERRAFORM, Erasure, and (how to break) Community Norms
  • ‘Do I need to turn her in?’ — something has gone very, very wrong
  • Three Tactics that Block Women from Getting Ahead
  • Movements: Towards Change
  • Dog Eat Dog Now this sounds like an interesting game. But one that I suspect I’d only want to play once.
  • The Places in Between
  • Making the Most of a 350-Square-Foot Studio in Detroit
  • Jim Hines has a roundup post about harassment and the fallout at Context this year.
  • Updating Centuries-Old Folklore With Puzzles And Power-Ups
  • The Pain of the Watermelon Joke
  • My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK
  • Works By Karl Marx That Have Been Improved By The Addition Of Quotes From Dune It shouldn’t work and yet: it does.
  • We finally know why these mysterious ‘Tjipetir blocks’ are washing up on European beaches
  • This is why the middle class can’t get ahead
  • I See a Book and Get Angry and Write a Thing
  • The Importance of Being Kim Kardashian
  • Jian Ghomeshi harassed me on the job. Why did our radio station look the other way?
  • Tilda Swinton is a great and terrible goddess. We should tremble at her feet and despair. Also possibly a fairy queen.
  • On File Formats, Very Briefly
  • Does Sex Make Science Fiction “Soft?” C’mere, Tansy. I’ll recommend you some romance novels.
  • Emic, Etic, and the depiction of Otherness in SFF
  • Let’s Talk About Ethics In Games Journalism!
  • When well-meaning people harm those they supposedly protect
  • Why I don’t like hackathons, by Alex Bayley aged 39 1/2
  • ‘Your Job Is To Make Money’: Coal Boss Laid Bare After Miner Deaths
  • The Intellectual Condescension of White Liberals
  • Broken Windows And Broken Lives
  • Our Stories This is a deeply raw and personal essay by Roxane Gay. It contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. I was in tears by the end.

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  1. Paul Weimer (@princejvstin) says

    December 5, 2014 at 10:39 am

    Of course Tilda Swinton is a Faerie Queen. Unseelie to be precise.

  2. Susana S. P. says

    December 5, 2014 at 11:46 am

    I though Tilda was the Goblin King?

    That first link, there are not enough emoticons of sadly unsurprised rage and sadness.

  3. Eric says

    December 5, 2014 at 2:07 pm

    Ooh, romance recommendations! If anybody is so inclined, I’m always looking for some . 🙂

    I keep looking up lists of “Science Fiction Romance” and “romantic science fiction”, and buying a couple of promising books. Along the way, I’ve learned a few things:

    1. I’m a sucker for a really good romance novel, but I’m hopelessly bad at finding books that I’d enjoy.

    2. I love all of Bujold’s romances, including the fantasy ones. I also enjoyed Rachel Bach’s Paradox series, and Ilona Andrews’ short SF romances, and a bunch of others. My favorite SF romances are the ones where the world-building and the relationship work together to make the story.

    3. With heterosexual romances, I’m fairly picky about the male leads. I go by the “party host” rule: If I organized a party, and if I saw the male lead treating his partner like that, would I throw him out of my house for good?

    There’s some pretty amazing stuff out there, but I haven’t figured out how to find reliably find things that I’d like. Sturgeon’s Law is always a big challenge when exploring unfamiliar genres.

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