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Category Archives: Art & Literature

Two Panthers: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Imagery of Power

June 28, 2016by Kris Miranda 3 Comments

My last post notwithstanding, I emerged from Captain America: Civil War neither Team Cap nor Team Iron Man but thoroughly Team T’Challa, the Black Panther. Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa has perhaps […]

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Art & Literature, Book & Movie Reviews

Humanism as a Way of Life: Lalon Fakir & the Baul Tradition of Bengal

February 10, 2016by Guest Contributor 8 Comments

By Milly Sil At Rutgers University India is a country possessing rich cultural heritage and folk music has been an integral part of her culture. However, the folk singers of […]

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Art & Literature, Religion & Secularism

Making More Interesting Stories: Conversation w a Culture Critic, Pt I

October 8, 2015by Kris Miranda 3 Comments

When Quentin Tarantino’s Vulture interviewer expressed surprise at his fondness for The Newsroom, the Aaron Sorkin drama many critics loved to hate, he replied: “Who the fuck reads TV reviews? […]

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Art & Literature, Politics & Culture

The Fiction Fallacy: Part 2, What Now?

January 27, 2015by Alexander Ioakimidis 2 Comments

In the first part of my exploration of the Fiction Fallacy, I argued that we cannot derive knowledge of the external world from fictions whatsoever. Now, it may occur to […]

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Art & Literature, Ethics & Philosophy

The Fiction Fallacy: Part 1, The Problem

December 30, 2014by Alexander Ioakimidis 2 Comments

In the day to day tedium of life, I often turn to fiction for comfort. I appeal to fictions in part because they help pass the time, and also because […]

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The Importance of Hard Science Fiction

October 14, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 12 Comments

For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars, speculative […]

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Art & Literature, Science & Nature

Darwin vs. Newton: A Poem

May 27, 2014by Leo Kozachkov Leave a comment

Of all the scientists to come, alive, or dead On the list of contributions, two names march ahead Newton and Darwin, forever supreme Best minds to roam Earth, lovely and […]

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Why is Literature Important? The 3 Social Functions of Fiction

May 6, 2014by Paul Chiariello 5 Comments

What’s the purpose of literature?  Of fiction?  Of course it’s enjoyable – it sweeps our emotions this way and that and allows us to ‘experience’ so much beyond our everyday life.  […]

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Art & Literature, Politics & Culture

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Pluto, Lovecraft, & the ‘REAL’ Reason Behind Cosmos

April 1, 2014by Paul Chiariello 4 Comments

OK… OK… Hear me out on this one: Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an alien, or at very least working for an alien race known as the Mi-go who are described […]

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The Irreverent Trauma of Being Just a Human: Event Review of Salman Rushdie at Rutgers University

November 19, 2013by Emma 2 Comments

Last week, world-famous author Salman Rushdie appeared at Rutgers University as part of the English Department’s new Writers at Rutgers Reading Series.  Hundreds of eager students, faculty, staff, and community […]

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