Kristin Scott

I’ve noticed a fairly new trend in mainstream film and television that seems to reflect the younger generation and those within it who believe that sexual identity is more fluid than categorical. Or perhaps these shows reflect a growing acceptance of various sexual identities, but also a struggle with the various ‘cultures’ that often accompany [...]

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Kudos to Art Conrad of Bremerton, WA for stirring some much needed controversy. Conrad apparently nailed a large Santa Claus to a cross in his front yard in protest of the commercialism of Christmas. Conrad is quoted by the Associated Press as saying that “Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be [...]

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I came across (albeit 12 years after the fact) a fascinating concept: That there is “no regulon in the semiosphere” . . .
I’m currently reading Paris to the Moon, an excellent novel by Adam Gopnik, an American who moves to Paris with his wife and son in 1995 and chronicles some of his five-year reflections [...]

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I’ve been very interested lately in what seems to be a fairly recent proliferation of cyborg advertising for things that have nothing to do with the internet, cyberspace, and/or advanced technology.
I ran across two such ads within a few blocks of the Columbia College Chicago campus recently. One was an ad by Svedka [...]

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Lately, I’ve had a lot of students suggest that anything and/or everything in the virtual world is “not real.” Their logic often follows that since the virtual world is not real, nor the objects within it, neither are those representations of “ourselves” we often call avatars. And then while in Second Life, while perusing various [...]

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