Borges and Popular Culture

Christianity and Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

alEph and BORGES

as is known, Aleph began life in this world very long before we did, about five millennia ago, in the most privileged and closely guarded precincts of the Egyptian pyramids.1 The hieroglyph profile of its bull head can be seen quite clearly in the spells recorded in the Book of the Dead over the many centuries and dynasties that comprise the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Surviving shifts in fas...

Philosophy as Literature: the Case of Borges I. Borges the Artist and Borges the Thinker

For you took it, taking a look, that he was there, supposing quite correctly that things would not have looked that way unless he was. (This is not Dretske's example, but I hope it does not botch his point.) The third point, implicit of course in those others, is -that, while in a sense what we can see is simply what is there to be seen, there is no such ineluctable limit to what we can 'get to...

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

This research examined media depiction of homicide in a large metropolitan area from the market-driven journalism perspective (McManus, 1994). From this perspective, news organization decisions are based on journalist and news editor perceptions of what type of stories resonate with the general public. Accordingly, the news production process becomes characterized as an exercise in market strat...