Tag: militarism

  • Normalizing Empire in Hollywood

    Normalizing Empire in Hollywood

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    New Report From the Cost of War Project The Costs of War project at Brown University released the first in a series of reports on the normalization of pro-military messaging in American pop culture on February 25, 2025. The series is called Consuming War: How Pop Culture Captures Our Attention and Fuels Forever Wars and…

  • IDK Project Post

    IDK Project Post

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    I Didn’t Know – Visual Summary I Didn’t Know is a multimedia project designed to educate the general public about the connection between war, militarism, and the environmental polycrisis – climate change especially. Before I went down a rabbithole asking questions about the Department of Defense’s climate plan, I didn’t know just how much petroleum…

  • The Theater of Operations

    The Theater of Operations

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    I don’t think I really understood the extent to which American fear of annihilation was woven into everyday life during the Cold War, finally coming into its own as a quintessentially American cultural trait once the US dropped the bombs on Japan. It’s a strange collective paranoia to be the only party in history with…