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Fiction Explores Political Implications

Fiction Explores Political Implications

Jack Portman January 16, 2020
Politics exist essentially as the natural state of our living together
Political Ecology Salvages And Sustains Native Praxis

Political Ecology Salvages And Sustains Native Praxis

Jack Portman December 5, 2019

Considering political ecology as a framework for analyzing the relationship between space, labor and environmental factors is crucial if the political-economic aspects affecting production and ecology...

Bezos Award Belies His Dubious Business Practice

Bezos’ Award Belies His Dubious Business Practice

Jack Portman November 21, 2019

This week the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. awarded Jeff Bezos the Portrait of a Nation prize at the biennial American Portrait Gala. Bezos and his fellow recipients, including Hamilton star...

Good Art Explains Mystery Through Manners

Good Art Explains Mystery Through Manners

Jack Portman November 14, 2019

Art should function to induce some form of self-interrogation. It should focus on the unknown and the unknowable, the uncertain and the liminal, and by exploring these spaces, force viewers to consider...

Street Photography Captures Socio-Political Reality

Street Photography Captures Socio-Political Reality

Jack Portman October 24, 2019

Street photography is a valuable means of engaging with, analyzing and closely examining one’s surrounding environment. It is itself an intimate and nebulous medium; street photography retains aspects...

Indigenous Epistemologies Can Aid Western Logos

Indigenous Epistemologies Can Aid Western Logos

Jack Portman October 17, 2019

The Western epistemological discourse is so thoroughly rooted in its strict regiments and synchronic methodology that any alternative means of knowledge production are subject to its hegemonic scrutiny....

Political Correctness Remedies Unconscious Tradition

Political Correctness Remedies Unconscious Tradition

Jack Portman September 26, 2019

I met a drunken Canadian in the locker room of a bath-house rave in Budapest who thought that the controversy surrounding the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s blackface photos indicates that...

Banksys New Work Subverts The American Ethos

Banksy’s New Work Subverts The American Ethos

Jack Portman September 19, 2019

The anonymous British artist Banksy, in their characteristic stenciled graffiti-noir style, adorned the canal side of a Venetian building with the image of a refugee child. Ostensibly a subversive and...

Ethical Consumerism Requires Constant Vigilance

Ethical Consumerism Requires Constant Vigilance

Jack Portman September 12, 2019

To operate within a society, one typically operates within an economy as well. Each is somewhat — if not extensively or totally — conflated in such a way as to make participation in either necessary...

Critical Theory Can Illuminate Vital Intersectionality

Critical Theory Can Illuminate Vital Intersectionality

Jack Portman September 5, 2019

I imagine that grappling with how best to approach pedagogy characterizes a great amount of discussion on university campuses. Conversations about what themes to emphasize and what vocabulary to underscore...

Eun Hye Kim: Womens, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Eun Hye Kim: Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Jack Portman May 3, 2019

Eun Hye Kim is a senior from Seoul, South Korea, who grew up in Charlotte, N.C. She was one of five recipients of the Joseph G. Gordon scholarship, a full, merit-based scholarship, and was additionally...

Anna Grace Guercio: Anthropology

Anna Grace Guercio: Anthropology

Jack Portman May 3, 2019

Anna Grace Guercio is a senior from Mint Hill, N.C. In addition to her major in anthropology, Guercio has also majored in Spanish and minored in linguistics. When she came to Wake Forest, Guercio was unsure...

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