Pandemics, Contagion, and Fear, part 3
Over the next few days (weeks?), I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of …
Over the next few days (weeks?), I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of …
Over the next few days (weeks?), I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End …
During his 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump recycled a campaign slogan used several times before (by Ronald Reagan and Bill …
Warning: SPOILERS. Bradley Cooper and and Lady Gaga in a scene from A Star is Born, which Bradley Cooper also …
Two upcoming bi-coastal events to celebrate the launch of Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World: For …
Mark Ruffalo’s delightful response to the “I Am Not a Feminist” phenomenon, in which he castigates the current trend of women (and maybe …
Despite its glowing reviews, both by my friends and esteemed critics, Mad Max: Fury Road left me mystified and empty. What did …
Hyperreality is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically …
My feelings about Whiplash are complex, but one feeling isn’t. I hated it. I hated it with a passion. If …
[Another one from the archives.] Unless you had a VIP ticket, everyone was instructed, via email, to park in a …