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The New Millennium

What might the autobiographical project mean for readers if a published “I” is produced artificially, by a bot?

July 21, 2026 • by Nancy K. Miller

Every style is a means of insisting on something.—Susan Sontag, "On Style" Language expresses and style stresses.—Michael Riffaterre, "Criteria for Style Analysis" Inevitably, in the collective imagination of what developments the new millennium might bring, new social and cultural innovations were anticipated, projected, and marketed. But while such transition from one century ...

Reproduction At The End Of Humanity

Refusing Apocalypse and Dismantling The Threat Of The New

August 28, 2019 • by Faith Taylor

My interest in this growing sense of reproductive unease has been nourished by research into the impact of housing insecurity on millennials’ intimate lives. Here, generational inequality generates feelings of thwartedness across a range of experiences -- romantic partnerships are doomed by the inability to leave a parental home, barriers ...

Incels, Mormonism and Race, and Millennials and Personal Finance

Past Present Episode 132

May 30, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: In the wake of a Toronto terrorist attack, “incels,” or involuntary celibates, are gaining attention. Niki referred to this New York Times article about Jordan Peterson. Natalia cited Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker article on the origins of incel rage, Ross Douthat’s New York Times op-ed raising the possibility of the redistribution ...