Criminal: journalistic rigour, gothic tales and philosophical heft

Gothic Scholars Don’t Wear Black Gothic Studies and Gothic Subcultures

are hardly in touch with each other. This is something that should ideally change in the near future, since Gothic Studies and Gothic youth subcultures greatly overlap, at least as regards their common interest in Gothic literature, the iconography and the non-literary texts (films, comics, and so on) derived from it. The multiplicity of texts generated by Gothic, understood here as a narrative...

Social and Journalistic Changes

Tales from the Dark Side: International Criminal and Terrorist Groups as Knowledge-based Organizations

With the stunning success of the last year’s attacks on the United States and the continuing success of the international drug trafficking, it is clear that criminal and terrorist organizations have made effective use of a variety of available organizational forms and information technologies to advance their agendas. While their ends may be seen as contemptible, the means that they have adopte...

Gothic Art and Architecture

Gothic Art and Architecture, religious and secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). Gothic art began to be produced in France about 1140, spreading to the rest of Europe during the following century. The Gothic Age ended with the advent of the Ren...

Annotation and Gothic Hypertext

We often treat annotation as a supplement, scribbling tacked on to the real (hyper) text. Instead, we might view annotation as an organic process in which the current hypertext grows and is elaborated in ways that are unpredictable but not unconstrained. In this, we recognize the old mission of constructive hypertext to form a seedbed and trellis, a structure for what it becoming. A key to cult...