Radicalism(s) Reloaded
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Tunes of an American Charon. Nicole Corrales, San Francisco State University
Within the context of political conflict and societal alienation, Bob Dylan’s works (and the second wave folk revival in general) call for a collective consciousness of spirit, the sense of a collective future that demands an individual moral choice.
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Radical Clarity: The Black Panthers and the Revolutionary Act of Saying "What We Want". Kathryn Stevenson, University of California, Riverside
My essay, “Radical Clarity: The Black Panthers and the Revolutionary Act of Saying ‘What We Want,’” turns to the 10th point in the Black Panther Party plan to help articulate the kind of socializing the unruly child 21st-century U.S. capitalism needs now.
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The Bonesman and Rosemary’s Baby: The Gothicization of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University of Honolulu
I utilize the “demonic child” motif in horror fiction and film as a context for interpreting conspiracy theories surrounding Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Gothicism here becomes a way to “demonize” perceived political radicalisms.
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This Anti-Establishment Has Potential: Commercialism and the Resurrection of the Counterculture. Daniel Jones, Independent Scholar
To reestablish the legitimacy of the radicalism of the counterculture of the 1960’s, the movement must separate itself from the commercialist exploitation that has turned the movement into an archaic, farcical, epochal representation of our history.
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