Brian Brutlag

May 31, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon |Lindsey Patterson |Aram Schvey |Brian Brutlag

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. A core tenet of the modern disability rights movement is that disability can be understood not as an individual deficit but as a social failure. Historian Lindsey Patterson describes how the movement emerged thanks in part to disabled young people whose experiences in community with each other transformed their perspectives about what was possible for them.

May 18, 2024 | thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com | Brian Brutlag

The culture of the UnitedStates does not abide nor reckon with its history. The US cultural mindset isone of future facing fanaticism, to the point that there is little desire orregard for what has come before. This perspective, coupled with the starkindividualism that is birthed from the chrysalis of capitalism, has allowed for“progress” and “prosperity” to advance, though not for everyone, and certainlynot in equal measure or based upon need.

Mar 15, 2024 | thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com | Brian Brutlag

The secondfilm in my analysis of thefilms of Ana lily Amirpour, is the desert denizen dystopia, TheBad Batch; the next film in what I have dubbed Amirpour’s “ApocalypticAnomie” trilogy. For this sophomore outing, Amirpour trades Tehran for Texas,and vampires for cannibals in this amalgamated homage to the work of GeorgeMiller and John Carpenter.