25: In Flux

Introduction: Bad Subjects In Flux

Ron Alcalay, Charlie Bertsch, Ed Korthof
Flux encompasses all processes, from seemingly finite ones like dying to endlessly shifting ones like updating library collections.

Learning From the Children Of the '80s -- the 1880s

Richard Singer
As soon as I began to read about events that happened outside of my lifetime, I learned about an era of essential revolution that put the 1960s to shame.

Frontiers and Pioneers

Megan Shaw
It is no small wonder that the public response to returnees from Vietnam led to shame and silence on the part of the veterans.

Delicious Doughnuts In Berlin: The Dilemma Of Political Community In the Age Of Global Capitalism

John Brady
New cosmopolitanism and Islam are not so much two opposing answers to the dilemma of political community posed by capitalist globalization but reflections of capitalism's contradictory character.

The Example Of Jerry Brown

Rosemary Lemmis
The search for national renewal through spiritual solutions has its historical precedent.

Theory Goes To the Movies

Jonathan Sterne
I've started noticing a new generation of newspaper film critics whose writing manifests the various trappings of "theory."

Acting Like a Professor

David Hawkes
Writing an academic book requires that you take a certain tone with your material, and that you adopt a particular attitude towards your readers.

On Consideration Of the End Of the World: Life Without Jerry Garcia

On the day Jerry Garcia died, my life became a smaller and a bigger place simultaneously.

Libraries

Ann Theis
Libraries offer free access to information. On the other hand, libraries are under considerable pressure.

Fifty Years

Flossie Lewis
Teaching a new class of Freshman always presents me with problems. Nothing is forever-no course of study, no trick, no charm.

Deep Blues: Computerization and the Future of the Workplace

Charlie Bertsch
If Deep Blue teaches us anything, it's that a society in which human beings will no longer be able to work like machines will have a hard time creating jobs.

In Memoriam: Jim Breslin and Bill Nestrick

In Memoriam: Jim Breslin and Bill Nestrick

He Came To Our Parties

Steven Rubio
The Berkeley English department still enjoys a special, if at times prickly, place in the hearts and minds of many of us on the Bad Production Team.

Mourning In Academia

Ron Alcalay
Death -- especially the death of a writer, artist, or academic -- promises an intimacy we never knew in life, a chance for others to leaf through our file cabinets and journals.

Apocalyptic Collage(s)

Mike Mosher
The "Apocalypse" collages [interspersed throughout the issue] were created in 1994 originally intended for the issue of Bad Subjects with that theme.