Megan Power

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King

"Season one, episode one of Jersey Shore contains more action per second than either of the two world wars."

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...