drupagliassotti @ August 20, 2010 # No Comment Yet
My Lovecraftian Regency romance story “To Every Thing There is a Season” can be found in Apexology: Horror, the first ebook from Apex Book Company. It’s only US$2.99, so pick up a copy and get to know all of us Apex authors!
drupagliassotti @ August 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I mentioned that commodification is a form of sympathetic magic. That is, telling someone that if they buy designer clothes they will be considered as desirable as the celebrities who normally sport the stuff is akin to telling someone that if they put on a wolfskin belt by the light of the moon they’ll [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Unclutterer wryly pointed out the commodification of voluntary simplicity going on in tandem with the release of the movie Eat Pray Love. I appreciated this post, because I’ve talked about the power of the consumerist ideology in a few of my classes ever since the release of the magazine Real Simple ten years ago. Real [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 12, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I’m 43; I’ve been practicing voluntary simplicity for over a decade and currently practice a non-extreme minimalism. But I’m also a professor, which means everything is subject to critical analysis and questioning … including my own activities. For the last week or so I’ve been adding minimalist lifestyle and voluntary simplicity blogs to my BlockSite [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 7, 2010 # One Comment
I’m 43; I’ve been practicing voluntary simplicity for over a decade and currently practice non-extreme minimalism. But I’m also a professor, which means everything is subject to critical analysis and questioning … including the things I believe in. Which leads to this post…. Is U.S.-style minimalism well-adapted to the Great Recession? It sounds like a [...]