We once turned to popular culture because it produced fantasy objects; now, we are asked to 'identify with' the fantasising subject itself. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“In intellectual and popular culture, war has come to be regarded by many as a peculiar psychosis of Western civilization. This atmosphere… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
Bands speak for us in this inevitable way that you can't get anywhere else because it is this perfect balance of artistic… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the… — Tiffany Shlain Copy Share Image
I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“modernization’ of the 1970s and 1980s, by contrast, unintentionally blended plain Wahhabi Islamism with Western, especially American, popular culture, coexisting in an… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
In popular culture, there isn't any other conception of Islam and Muslims other than what you see on the news... When you… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true… — Devin C. Griffiths Copy Share Image
“Einstein was distrustful of elaborate mathematics, odd as that sounds for a mathematical physicist. There was, Einstein considered, too much math around,… — Trevelyan Copy Share Image
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“All the creatures of folklore and popular culture raise unanswered questions about the bodies we inhabit. The walking corpse horrifies because our… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
“A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the question was premature in Turner’s time, but not now. Currently we see around us an ever more apparent loss of… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
“We’re at this really unique time, I think, in trans representation in popular culture where homelessness, depression, mental health issues, instability-in-general are… — Mitch Kellaway Copy Share Image
America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the… — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“the challenge of living with popular culture may well be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the… — Ken Myers Copy Share Image
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
As any successful mad scientist will tell you, energy ain't free. Popular culture tends to forget this, instead focusing on the destructive… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Colin Kaepernick Kneeling Trojan Horse has turned sports into the victimhood Olympics, the most powerful venue in popular culture to preach… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I'm just so amazed by people who are willing to share things that, in the past, no one would have ever talked… — Cecile Richards Copy Share Image
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
