Michael Kackman
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Nice catch, Chris — thanks!
Nice catch, Chris-- thanks! Love going to the wayback machine.... ... -
Off to a great start — so
Off to a great start-- so glad to see such great discussion, both from familiar faces and new ones. Thanks for all your hard work, dear hosts! ... -
I suspect they were indeed
I suspect they were indeed seen as harbingers of modernity-- though I think it's noteworthy that they were also coded as essentially looking backward, toward an idealized/romanticized past. Their great achievement (both economically and culturally) i ... -
It's striking how often the
It's striking how often the discourse of preservation of heritage surrounds the emergence of new media technologies. Often, the promise of a new technology is not just that it will take us into an uncharted future, but that it will give us renewed ac ... -
Nicely put, Chris (and a
Nicely put, Chris (and a great piece overall). This clip, and this conversation about it, speaks to the ways in which Webb was often positioned as policing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. What seems like a contradiction-- between wholesome ...