June 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Why Adventure Time is the Ultimate Cartoon →
There’s no real backstory, there’s no complicated explanation about why a kid is hanging out with a talking dog, there’s no theoretical limits placed on Finn and Jake’s adventures, apart from a unique set of basic, malleable physics. It just is, and that’s the kind of unrestrained, uncomplicated storytelling that makes it beautiful.
January 2011
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Call for Papers: The Big Lebowski and Philosophy →
Some of the suggested topics:
“The Dude Abides”: The Good Life and The Big Lebowski
“New Sh*t Has Come to Light”: Warrant and Knowing in The Big Lebowski
“The Bums Will Always Lose”: The Big Lebowski and Philosophical Critiques of Power
“What Makes a Man? Mr. Lebowski”: The Big Lebowski and Humanness/Masculinity
“Am I the Only One Who Gives a Sh*t about the Rules?!”: Walter, Rule...
December 2010
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The Age of Sitting
Sometime ago Congress quietly passed a bill requiring all seats (e.g. chairs, sofas, stools) to come equipped with seat belts. We who didn’t keep up with the news were surprised to find seat belts everywhere: in our living rooms, in our work and home offices, on park benches. We would wear the seatbelts as a joke saying funny things like better safe than sorry and buckle up: it’s the law....