Among my favorite on-line publications is a magazine out of England called Spiked. It reminds me, in spirit, of The Baffler, a journal started a little over a decade ago in Chicago. The Baffler, which bills itself as the 'Journal that Blunts the Cutting Edge' has dedicated itself to critiquing the "culture" of business and marketing which has arguably infected almost every realm that was previously unsullied by it, or at least that traditionally put up a wall of separation between it and commodification, including Medicine, the Academy, artistic expression, and so forth. Though of course the boundaries of the last, especially, have always been blurry, as Warhol showed and the rise of the art auction has made all too real.
At any rate, Spiked has sections devoted to articles on parents and children and anti-social behavior questioning priggish, bourgeois, politically-correct and otherwise uptight and wrong-headed assumptions on what constitutes appropriate behavior. Check it out.
No comments:
Post a Comment