The Presentation of Sources and Rights Labelling Gets a Big Overhaul

Each source institution also has its own dedicated page on the site, linked to from the table, which communicates all the aforementioned information relating to rights. In addition, there are, if relevant, links provided to the digital collections area of the source’s own website, and to their pages on aggregators such as Internet Archive or … Read moreThe Presentation of Sources and Rights Labelling Gets a Big Overhaul

Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/10/23)

Killing Joke  “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes are also available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app.   HOUR 1Bauhaus, “Stigmata Martyr” (In the Flat … Read morePlaylist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/10/23)

10 Surreal Cities Inhabited by Animals

Before 2007, more people lived in rural areas than in cities. Since then, humans have become more geographically concentrated, and many cities have grown in size as people have flocked to them. But some animal species have long lived in close quarters this way and for the same kinds of reasons that people do, such … Read more10 Surreal Cities Inhabited by Animals

Unequal opera-tunities: gender inequality and non-standard work in US opera production

The authors find that women, as a group, experienced gender-based disadvantage across the key creative roles of opera production, but particularly in the artistic leadership roles of conductor and director. The authors also find that women’s exclusion in the field is being further perpetuated by the sector’s non-standard and overlapping employment structures, which impacts women … Read moreUnequal opera-tunities: gender inequality and non-standard work in US opera production

Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

Fraktur has its origins in folk art traditions from Alsace, Switzerland, and the Rhineland, but in America it became more colorful, elaborate, and freehand, and far more apt to dominate the script it sought to embellish. The genre’s golden age was the period between 1790 and 1830 — a time when the American religious context … Read moreFraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

Music Review: I Don't Want You Anymore – Cherry Glazerr

(Secretly Canadian) If there’s one constant in Cherry Glazerr’s vigorous alt-rock through the years, it’s Clementine Creevy never sounding like she needs to apologize. To describe it in simpler terms: her musical project oozes raw power. But something’s changed in Creevy’s fifth album. While there are raucous barnburners like Touched You With My Chaos and … Read moreMusic Review: I Don't Want You Anymore – Cherry Glazerr

Images from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive

In the 1930s, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, mystic and founder of the multidisciplinary Eranos forum, began compiling a diverse visual archive that would allow dreamers to cross-reference their visions with the entirety of cultural history. Frederika Tevebring explores this grandiose undertaking and its effect on the archivist, as images from the collection began to blur with her … Read moreImages from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive

10 Chilling Stories That Might Just Keep You Up at Night

As children, many of us sat around the dinner table or a crackling campfire, listening to our parents or friends tell us the creepiest stories. We’d surreptitiously glance over our shoulders, ready to run at the slightest creak of a twig or flutter of a curtain. The characters in these stories haunted us. They brought … Read more10 Chilling Stories That Might Just Keep You Up at Night

“I felt sad then, I feel free now”: a case for examining the constructive resistance of opted-out mothers

The mothers in the sample tend to construct themselves in two main ways, as (1) valuable mothers (capable, tireless, caring mothers who are key figures in their children’s lives) and (2) competent professionals. These subjectivities are parasitic on gendered and neoliberal ideals but allow the mothers to undermine neoliberal capitalist work arrangements that were incongruent … Read more“I felt sad then, I feel free now”: a case for examining the constructive resistance of opted-out mothers

The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

Desprez’s 121 engravings illustrate garbs supposedly found the world over in 1562, worn by humans and monsters alike. source

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