Speculative fiction remains one of my favorite descriptive terms for genre fiction. Attributed to sci-fi legend Robert Heinlein […]
Category Archive: deindustrialization
The Sound of Motor City: Ruin Porn, Popular Memory, and Protomartyr’s Vision of 21st Century Detroit
For the past couple years, one of the most vital sounds in music today has come out of […]
When Becky Nicolaides chairs or comments on a panel, people show up. The author of the now seminal My […]
“Here, and shockingly few other places in this country, men are paid to increase knowledge, to work toward […]
Hello there. You are now witnesses to a kind of confrontation between me and these three men. And […]
Several times a year, the intrepid reporters of Tropics of Meta follow the academic conference beat, checking out […]
Editor’s note: This week we kick off a series of posts on punk in the 1980s and 1990s […]
“My brain is like oatmeal,” jobless auto worker Jack Butler (Michael Keaton) tells his newly employed wife Caroline […]