Tag Archives: Culture

Genes, crime and astrology

Posted on June 24, 2011 by admin

Listening to the Diane Rehm radio show today, BBC’s Katty Kay was hosting a conversation about genetics and criminal behavior. (Both the recording and transcripts are available online.) The basic premise of this kind of research is that one can make … Continue reading →

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Drop-out Economics

Posted on May 29, 2011 by admin

I remember we used to have these business seminars when I was in college in which they invited people to talk about their experiences in the real world, outside say the Ivory Towers.  Once, we had this guy, let’s call … Continue reading →

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Religious vandalism

Posted on April 19, 2011 by admin

In the movie Angels & Demon (2009), fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) tells his entourage about the Great Castration—the (allegedly) controversial decision by Pope Pius IX to emasculate all of the male sculptures inside Vatican Museums because, Langdon’s … Continue reading →

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Au revoir Bolaño, bienvenue Stieg!

Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin

En esta entrevista para la revista Rolling Stone, el escritor Nathaniel Rich explica los resultados de su investigación reciente sobre la vida del escritor sueco Stieg Larsson, autor de la trilogía policíaca Millennium.  Me gustaría resaltar esto: [Rich] was much … Continue reading →

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¿Es Bolaño postmoderno?

Posted on December 5, 2010 by admin

Mi respuesta corta a esta pregunta es: depende. Si, como dice Eagleton, en su The ilussions of postmodernism, entendemos por postmoderno (en el más puro sentido jamesoniano) la alusión a un “specific historical period”, entonces hay que responder que sí, … Continue reading →

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