JSTOR is starting an online magazine - JSTOR Daily. It’s a scholarly bent on news and culture and it’s live right now but will officially launch next week. We’re accepting pitches from writers on articles - link to the submission guidelines here (and we pay our writers, too!).
So check it out and let me know if you have any questions or thoughts! Also, submit away.
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Today is the official launch of JSTOR Daily! It's a new online magazine that features articles and blog posts that draw upon the wealth of scholarship on JSTOR to contextualize the modern world. Check it out and follow my colleagues on Twitter @JSTOR_Daily for updates.
Have you checked out JSTOR Daily yet? No? WHY NOT? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Cool stuff published recently:
You can also keep up with Daily on Facebook and Twitter. And, as always, we are accepting submissions. Read the submission guidelines here.
Tumblr is cutting off the preview text just before it gets good: “Librarians gathered in 1970 to challenge Library of Congress classifications and catalog subject headings that aligned homosexuality with deviance.”
Courtesy of our friends at JSTOR Daily! “Scientists Have an Answer to How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built.”
“Dragons, in the original sense of the word, are real animals,” according to scholars, so there you go.
Just in time for Halloween! We explore some theories about what caused the Salem Witch Trials. Ergot poisoning? Economic rifts? A “little ice age’?
Two women writers collaborated under a male pseudonym to circumvent the sexism of Victorian society… Until that jerk Robert Browning spilled the beans. There’s lots more to the story, though!
WHEN: SATURDAY JUNE 28, 7-9PM
WHERE: VEGAS, MORE SPECS TBT
WHO: Tumblarians, JSTOR, You, Me
Sparkly, GIF’d announcement and more details to follow.
Put it on your calendars! JSTOR commands you. (Not really, we’re just asking politely).
The writers at JSTOR Daily know my heart: the dystopian film and rise thereof.
“This month, Mockingjay, the third film in the immensely successful Hunger Games series, will be released. Divergent, another dystopian film franchise with a young female heroine, came out in March. The cinematic dystopia is hardly a new genre, but there seems to be a curious increase in the number and popularity of such films lately. The summer of 2014 alone saw three dystopian fables enter movie theaters, each keyed to a different demographic. The most artful of these was Snowpiercer, which fed liberal pieties about class equality while sounding a now familiar alarm about climate change.
The cinema has long been drawn to science fiction and the challenge of visualizing the unimaginable. Yet the recent uptick in dystopian and post-apocalyptic scenarios seems more urgent and more extreme. Many of these films, including Snowpiercer, are concerned with environmental apocalypse, or they unfold in the aftermath. Yet they offer no solutions and little consolation.
Why, then, do we shell out 12, 13, 14 dollars for films that seem designed only to frighten and depress us? What species of entertainment, much less relief, do these nightmare scenarios offer?”
✨ New on the blog: If your heart is in the humanities, you may be discouraged in the face of other academic fields–but the humanities remain critical. Through a journey of loss, literature, and scholarly accounts, learn how the humanities are vital to human understanding.
Read the blog post.
Image: Charles Le Brun and William Hebert. A man whose profile expresses compassion. n.d. Wellcome Collection.
