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Aaron Colton
Bio: Aaron Colton is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Secrecy & Identity (social science). The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 10 citations.
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TL;DR: This article explored the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism and found that the culture of the Arts and Crafts was not simple escapism, but reveals some enduring and recurring tensions in American culture.
Abstract: T. J. Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources -- sermons, diaries, letters -- as well as novels, poems, and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism. He examines the retreat to the exotic, the pursuit of intense physical or spiritual experiences, and the search for cultural self-sufficiency through the Arts and Crafts movement. Lears argues that their antimodern impulse, more pervasive than historians have supposed, was not \"simple escapism,\" but reveals some enduring and recurring tensions in American culture.
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TL;DR: The picture on the cover of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos is of an abandoned classroom, ceiling falling, paint peeling, graffiti plastered, with term papers sharing space with garbage on a dirty...
Abstract: The picture on the cover of Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos is of an abandoned classroom, ceiling falling, paint peeling, graffiti plastered, with term papers sharing space with garbage on a dirty ...
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01 Jan 1965
TL;DR: The characteristic of the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a vast' or gigantic' conspiracy as the "motive force" in historical events as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: "The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a vast' or gigantic' conspiracy as the "motive force" in historical events...The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of this conspiracy in apocalyptic terms--he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization." --From the book
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TL;DR: Shank as mentioned in this paper studied the history of popular music, its cultural and economic context, and also the broader ramifications of that music as a signifying practice capable of transforming identities in Austin, Texas.
Abstract: Music of the bars and clubs of Austin, Texas has long been recognized as defining one of a dozen or more musical \"scenes\" across the country. In Dissonant Identities, Barry Shank, himself a musician who played and lived in the Texas capital, studies the history of its popular music, its cultural and economic context, and also the broader ramifications of that music as a signifying practice capable of transforming identities. While his focus is primarily on progressive country and rock, Shank also writes about traditional country, blues, rock, disco, ethnic, and folk musics. Using empirical detail and an expansive theoretical framework, he shows how Austin became the site for \"a productive contestation between two forces: the fierce desire to remake oneself through musical practice, and the equally powerful struggle to affirm the value of that practice in the complexly structured late-capitalist marketplace.\
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