Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Chart Porn: War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
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Tags: culture, horsemenoftheapocalypse, meme, society, war, zombie
I've been wittering on for ages about how meme-based films reflect society - why the wave of alien-invasion films in the Cold War, for example? - and these guys have kindly mapped a subset of it. I'm particularly keen to check out the 1964 classic "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies", no doubt inspired by cultural aftershocks after Sputnik went up. Via Matt K.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Ian Buruma: The dogmatism of Enlightenment - signandsight
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Tags: for:jamesfulford, for:nickreed, multiculturalism, policy

Friday, April 28, 2006

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2005
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Tags: culture