Utilitarian Review 10/17/14

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Subdee on Homestuck as metatext of doom.

Me on what happens when you take racism out of Gone with the Wind and H.P. Lovecraft.

Me on how Columbus was a genocidal monster.

Ng Suat Tong on how Snowpiercer the film is cheerier than Snowpiercer the comic.

Alex Buchet with a collection of his favorite TCJ covers.

Kim O’Connor on comics crit and solipsism.

Brian Cremins on curating a show featuring work by Edie Fake, John Porcellino, and Marnie Galloway.

Chris Gavaler on fictional Bath, past, present and future.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Pacific Standard I wrote about the right-wing whackos who think Michelle Obama is a trans woman, and how black women are denied femininity.

At Esquire I wrote about Jose Alaniz’s book Death, Disability and the Superhero, and superheroes as disempowerment fantasy.

At the Atlantic I wrote about gender, race, and the Snoop/Iggy twitter beef.

At Splice Today I wrote about

— a great electronica/dance label, Soulection.

— politicians spouting nonsense and the press spouting more nonsense.
 
Other Links

Ambrose Bierce on Columbus.

Sean T. Collins interviewed Anita Sarkeesian.

Ben Casselman on why 538 doesn’t cover markets.

Victoria Law on the failures of carceral feminism.

Mary McCarthy on paying to buy twitter followers.
 

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