Redefining Class

Marx famously argues that there are two dominant classes in capitalist societies: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. He argued that in…

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Regulating the Poetic Economy

With its privileging of elitist avant-garde poetry, the unregulated poetic economy is clearly unfair to story-telling, rhyming, and formalist poets. Indeed, the rejection of storytelling in poetry further demonstrates a heteronormative…

How My Wife Killed the Local Mall (and so did you)

Two years ago, my wife and I took our children to Half-Price Book Store and had their pictures taken with Santa. The line was about three families long, as opposed to the 50+ families lined up at the mall, so for us it was an obvious choice.