Megan Power

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

"The thought was disquieting—that our identities should be so mutable, and therefore the course of our lives."

Labov's 6 Basic Elements of Storytelling

Classifying and delineating story patterns is a vast field of study, but one of the most influential theories was written in 1972 by socioli...
Birkhoff's Formula for Aesthetic Measure

Paul Octavious' s 51 books on love Mathematician George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) had a keen interest in aesthetics - ...
Highway Gothic and Other Iconic Typefaces

The font most commonly used on road signs and highways in Canada and the U.S. is FHWA Series E Modified . This is a sans-serif font infor...
J.G. Ballard's Death of Affect

British novelist J.G. Ballard wrote the postmodernist classic Crash and coined the phrase "Death of Affect". 'Affect' i...
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper

"We need, in short, to challenge the presumption that the work-dominated, stressed-out, time-scarce and materially encumbered affluen...