Tag Archives: Maxfield Parrish

omar the tent faker

How to escape the classic and enduring, reinforced Orientalist trappings, the colonialist “other” that keeps resurfacing in reinforced, ingenious and more invigorated fashion. Is this part of the running of the gauntlet, the typical immigrant cycle as invoked by Canadian … Continue reading

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the barn: tangles and angles of innocence

Advertising billboards on the side of barns are really part of Americana, and have been so since the end of the eighteenth-century.  Its easy to dismiss this kind of advertising as having minimal cultural value or significance, but closer looks … Continue reading

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MEMES IN OUR GENES

In the digital age its becoming of becoming of greater importance to understand  the idea of “meme” — a unit of cultural information. The concept has been neatly expressed  in Henry Jenkins’s white paper, If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead. … Continue reading

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