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 [...]

Album Review: Dntel’s Dumb Luck

I must admit that when I first purchased Dumb Luck, I was hoping for something closer to Dntel’s first “major” release and birthplace of the Postal Service (Life is Full of Possibilities). His previous album was primarily a series of complex instrumental/electronic pieces interspersed with vocal tracks made all the more poignant [...]

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 [...]