March 28, 2016

Academic Absurdity of the Week: Vindicating Madonna

(Steven Hayward) Someone went and took Madonna's 1980s hit "Material Girl" ("'Cause we are living in a material world/And I am a material girl") and turned it into an academic journal, the Journal of Material Culture. And it offers gems—no, pearls!—like this: The politics of vibrant matter: Consistency, containment and the concrete of Mussolini's bunker Nadia Bartolini, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK. Abstract:

Source: Power Line