Administrative note.
The long-delayed third segment of my articles on apocalypticism as social control looks like it will be delayed further--I am moving halfway across the country, and these next two weeks are full and hectic. I have completed half the apocalypticism article, and I have yet to arrive at my major area of interest, so don't worry, there will be more.
Brewing on the back-burner is the next series I will undertake, which I have tentatively titled "The Armory of Ardor: Sex and Semiotics," an examination of the symbols, codes, and communication of American sexuality over the past few decades. I am very much interested in the interplay of power in language, and the notion of the illicit and the taboo aggregates power and control around itself.
I will post as I can, and thanks for reading!