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#563 - Paul Williams at the Fillmore

#563 – Paul Williams at the Fillmore

paul williams, 1948-2013. Paul Williams, March 1967. Photograph: David Hartwell. In the spring of 1967, on [...]
#562 - Culture Rover's Unfamiliar Quotations

#562 – Culture Rover’s Unfamiliar Quotations

dwight garner on why it’s critical to be critical. What is criticism? Karl Marx had [...]
#561 - Live in Concert: The Republic of Rock (Talk @ Northwestern)

#561 – Live in Concert: The Republic of Rock (Talk @ Northwestern)

Title: “The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture” Presenter: Dr. Michael [...]
#560 - Culture Rover's Unfamiliar Quotations

#560 – Culture Rover’s Unfamiliar Quotations

The critic’s primary task is to recreate the complex set of problems that arise in [...]
#559 - Culture Rover's Unfamiliar Quotations

#559 – Culture Rover’s Unfamiliar Quotations

geertz on data. …that what we call data are really our own constructions of other [...]
#558 - Culture Rover's Unfamiliar Quotations

#558 – Culture Rover’s Unfamiliar Quotations

Art is not really an ‘imitation of life’; it would be more accurate to say [...]
#557 - Software for Hardware

#557 – Software for Hardware

thank you person who placed colorful wool handwarmers on cold institutional doors.  
#556 - Positivist Positively Against Positivism

#556 – Positivist Positively Against Positivism

auguste comte on statistics. …Comte was against the use of statistics because he feared that [...]
#555 - Digital American Studies

#555 – Digital American Studies

X-post from my Issues in Digital History blog: reviewing lauren frederica klein’s review, “american studies after [...]
#554 - Past Plays

#554 – Past Plays

dramatizing the return of the repressed: moment @ steep theatre, 10/18/12 & good people @ [...]
#553 - Thinking Through Dancing, Lavishly

#553 – Thinking Through Dancing, Lavishly

same planet different world 15th anniversary @ victory gardens biograph theater, 3/18/12. Adam Guazza and [...]
#552 - Good Morning, Vietnam!

#552 – Good Morning, Vietnam!

another fine radio documentary about rock and other music during the vietnam war era. Album [...]

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