David Price (St. John’s): The Unnatural Creature: How the Production of Knowledge Reflects Western Cultural History in Frankenstein. From Religion and Gender, a special issue on gender and religiosity in multicultural societies. A review of Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman. A review of A Short History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs by Alexandra Johnson. From Not So Reviews, Mike Brown on Zizek and the age of advertising; Jason Muller on the irony of indie; and Robert Hainault on why Tories take cocaine. Science fiction, science fact: Does infinity exist? The greatest threat to our freedom: Of all the dangers to the freedom of the American people, Jacob G. Hornberger would rank the enemy-combatant doctrine as the greatest. From Cosmopolitan Journal, an article on exploring conflict as a source of peace in Kant. Why do we say that someone is “hot”?
