Movie Review: Revolver

Long overdue, I’ve finally found some time to post a review of Revolver.  From the minds that brought you Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Revolver stars Jason Statham, Andre 3000, Vincent Pastore, and Ray Liotta. It’s a strong cast, and they perform their parts admirably.

I was expecting a heist film [...]

Movie Review: Wanted

All right. Yesterday, a nearby ATM ate my debit card while I was withdrawing cash from the only account that had cash to withdraw. Needless to say, I couldn’t withdraw cash without the debit card. Therefore I couldn’t take the metro to work, or even pay for parking at the hospital where I [...]

What’s in a Name?

“If you could rename yourself, what would your name be?” There are quite a few ways to take this question because of the ambiguous phrasing.

1. In contemporary American English, the question implies that one can change one’s name.  In this interpretation, the operative clause is “what would your name [...]

Stuff White People Like

Submitted for your consideration: stuff white people like.

The rough premise of the site is to help “not white” people relate to “white” people by understanding “white” behavior and taste. The site has only been up for a month, but it has already seen nearly two million hits.

This excerpt from the first post gives [...]

A (Beginner’s) Beginner’s Guide to Derrida’s “Structure, Sign, and Play”

*For pagination, see David Richter’s The Critical Tradition (2nd edition of 3).

I. the rupture in structure (878)
-A. structure is inherently limited by its organization
-B. structure is organized around a center-”a point of presence, a fixed origin.”
-C. the center constrains the amount [...]

An Introduction to Foucault’s Theory of Discursive Fields

Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge concerns itself with two issues. Broadly, Archaeology is an attempt to overturn continuous models of history in lieu of a model predicated on discontinuity. More specifically, Foucault argues that the study of history should be a study of the relationships between discursive “statements/events.” The body of our excerpt [...]