Graduate students write papers every week that we share with our professors and a small group of colleagues. We're lucky if we get 10 sets of eyes on work that we put hours, sometimes weeks of effort into. To Sense is an outlet where I'll post my past and future Communication and Cultural Studies essays that would otherwise never be read again. For my friends, family, professors, fellow scholars and the generally curious - enjoy. Maximilian Brichta
29 Mar 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta
In the chapters 5 & 7 of Local Knowledge, Geertz discusses art as an object of anthropological study, assesses issues with "modern" notions of "thought," and offers critiques the elitism and disciplinary boundaries within the academy. Chapter 5 – “A...
28 Mar 2021 35 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta
If one wishes to analyze prisons from a communication perspective, they will inevitably grapple with Foucault. His 1975 book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison has become a canonical assessment of power relations in houses of punishment a...
28 Mar 2021 9 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta
If there is one cultural critic that was able to capture early 20th-century America’s structure of feeling, H.L. Mencken is it. His iconoclastic, skeptical, caustic, and pessimistic critiques probed into the everyday life of the emerging middle class...
