The audit system is turning UK higher education into a vast shopping mall, American sociology professor George Ritzer tells Walter Ellis Small, balding and be-jumpered, George Ritzer looks more like...
Cultural studies is fighting for its survival in a harsh research marketplace, says Richard Maxwell, while Mica Nava argues that shopping is all part of politics Cultural studies is one of the fields...
Cultural studies is fighting for its survival in a harsh research marketplace, says Richard Maxwell, while Mica Nava argues that shopping is all part of politics Until the late 1980s, consumption was...
Nigel Barley invites you to enter the Whore of Babylon Experience, a fictional museum tour. Patchouli squirts, orgasmic commentary and multiple virgins await, not to mention your fellow visitors -...
Literature and anthropology scholars do not always see eye to eye but, writes Stephen Phillips, in thinking about ‘culture’, they share a joint project For James Buzard, associate literature...
Why, asks Jonathan Dollimore, is all theory so easily dismissed as irrelevant because of one or two bad ones? In Maggie Gee’s latest novel, The White Family , there’s a sad character writing a book...
Is imagination more important than knowledge? Both are crucial to our species’ evolution, argues Kathleen Taylor in a prizewinning essay Berlin, 1929. The poet and journalist George Sylvester Viereck...
The MLA has its annual meeting in New York next week and, in keeping with the post-9/11 mood, it is broadening its reach far beyond the traditional confines of academia, reports Jon Marcus This year’...
Controversial academic scholarship in the public sphere after 9/11 8.30am, December 28 Across generational divides: women in the academy&...
Most English academics suffer from ‘entertainment deficit disorder’, an inability to see that show business is their real job. To overcome this - and in doing so improve teaching - they should quit...
The aftermath of al-Qaida's attacks on the US is forcing the West to remember the Middle Ages - in particular, how pre-modern societies used individual religious affiliation to define a...
The lack of tragedy and moral ambiguity in US cultural forms leaves Americans naive about the the world, says Ken Hirschkop September 11 is commonly described as a national tragedy (a Google search...
The legendary anthropologist Clifford Geertz has long courted controversy with his views on hard scientific methodology. For him, lit crit and experience in the field are what count. Stephen Phillips...
Why not have a go at answering our Christmas literary quiz over the festive season. You could win a case of wine , or a book token if you are an overseas reader. The closing date for entries is 10...
Dove pie, roast swan, brains in wine, pig's trotters, Anglo-Norman finger food (for the toothless), 12th cake - Colin Spencer kicks off four pages of consuming passions, tracing the development of...