A perusal of academic books in fashion studies over the last decade reveals that the term “fad” itself may have fallen out of style. Even Arthur Berger’s text Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture includes little mention of fads. Still, popular media feature lists of “what’s hot” versus “what’s not.” Why aren’t these called fads? Perhaps the timespace nexus associated with contemp…
Historically, schools of higher learning were referred to as stadium generale or universitas; titles conferred by the Pope of the day, with the latter being the higher honor. This early association with religion can still be seen in the similarities between academic dress and church robes. However, the early schools were not religious orders as a rule, but rather scholastic guilds made up of st…
Theala bersembunyi di balik keheningan sebagai perempuan mandiri yang benci punya angan-angan. Dirga bersembunyi di balik keramaian laki-laki bersinar yang hanya tahu caranya mencari kesenangan. Di balik trauma masa kecil, selalu ada hati yang dibungkam. Dirga adalah bibir, Theala adalah suara. Dan dengan berbicara, mereka bisa mendengar semuanya.
Tentang para pemimpi yang dikhianati cita-cita mereka sendiri. Seorang pendiri perusahaan start-up idealis bernama Javier bertemu dengan mantan atlet catur penakut bernama Utara. Saat mereka hampir menyerah untuk memperjuangkan apa yang mereka cita-citakan selama ini, mereka belajar untuk memaafkan keadaan
In hisremarkable study of the Upper Palaeolithic parietal art of Western Europe, The Mind in the Cave, David Lewis-Williams suggests that some imagery present in caves such as Chauvet and Lascaux was inspired by ex-periences of altered states of consciousness.1 Emergence from such altered states can be accompanied by the appearance of afterimages, mental pic-tures that hang suspended in the fie…
f you choose not to read this and move straight on to In Homage to Darwin, we will not be offended. The story, however, of how two scientific dinosaurs came to cooperate in writing about their shared world view, gleaned from a combined total of more than 150 years of independent study of biology, needs, we feel, some explanation.Any two biologists can b…