- Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, … - Bell Hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins (born on September 25, 1952), better known as bell hooks is an African-American intellectual, feminist, and social activist. Hooks focuses on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. - Mark Dery
Mark Dery (born 1959) is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. He writes about "media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture" and teaches media criticism and literary journalism in the Department of Journalism at New York University. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Lingua Franca, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Spin, Wired, Salon.com, Cabinet, and others. - Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has constructed controversial theories of poetic influence, and advocates an aesthetic approach to literature against Feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, Post-modernist, and other methods of academic literary criticism. - Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School. - Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and he received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. - Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is also an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. - Erik Davis
Erik Davis (b. 1967 in Redwood City, California) is a North American social historian, cultural critic, essayist and lecturer. He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era. Although significants aspects of his work include media criticism and technology criticism, his works span across other disciplines to include a larger social history of art, religion, and science, … - Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also controversial, eventually leading to the first posthumous pardon in New York history. - Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Currently, he lives in New York City, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Koestenbaum's work, both in poetry and nonfiction, has explored the social and mental life of American queer intellectuals. - Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she linked with rape and other forms of violence against women. An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin became a radical feminist after escaping an abusive marriage in the Netherlands, and went on to publish ten books on radical feminist theory and practice. - Siegfried Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer (February 8, 1889, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - November 26, 1966, New York) was a German-American writer, journalist, sociologist, and cultural critic, particularly of media such as film, as well as the urban form. - Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. She is also known as an outspoken commentator of university education. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2004. She was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated at New Utrecht High School and Brooklyn College. - John Leonard
John Leonard (born February 25, 1939) is an American literary, TV, film and cultural critic. - Steven Shaviro
Steven Shaviro is an American cultural critic. His most widely read book is "Doom Patrols", a "theoretical fiction" that outlines the state of postmodernism during the early 1990s, using poetic language, personal anecdotes, and creative prose. Additionally, Shaviro has written a book about film theory, "The Cinematic Body", which examines the dominance of Lacanian tropes in contemporary academic film theory. - Irving Babbitt
Irving Babbitt (August 2, 1865 - July 15, 1933) was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known as the New Humanism, a significant influence on literary discussion and conservative thought in the period between 1910 to 1930. He was a cultural critic in the tradition of Matthew Arnold, and a consistent opponent of romanticism, as represented by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. - Jeremy Blake
Jeremy Blake (born 1971) is an American painter and video artist known for his innovations in expanding the meaning and conceptions of painting by incorporating digital technology into C-prints, films and videos. The highlights of his career include being selected for three simultaneous inclusions in the prestigious American art showcase Whitney Biennial for 2000, 2002 and 2004. His "Winchester" series was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005. - Hiroki Azuma
born May 9 1971 in Mitaka, Tokyo is a Japanese cultural critic. He began his writing inspired by Kojin Karatani's work. He is an associate of Takashi Murakami and the Superflat movement. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1999 and became a professor at the International University of Japan in 2003. - Amanda Marcotte
Amanda Marcotte is a blogger. She runs the liberal feminist weblog Pandagon and was briefly the blogmaster for the presidential campaign of former Senator John Edwards. - Richard Slotkin
Richard Slotkin is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. His award-winning trilogy on the myth of the frontier in America, which is comprised of "Regeneration Through Violence", "The Fatal Environment", and "Gunfighter Nation" offers an original and highly provocative interpretation of the United States' national experience. - William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson (born July 16, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but has recently been writing mostly poetry. He has made significant contributions to cultural history, social criticism, the philosophy of science, and the study of myth. He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". He is an astute reader of science, social science, history, and literature. - Bill Hicks
William Melvin "Bill" Hicks, (December 16, 1961 - February 26, 1994), was a controversial American stand-up comedian, satirist and social critic. Comedian Richard Pryor figured largely as an inspiration and stand-up idol for Hicks, as did Woody Allen who also served strongly as a very early influence for a pre-teen Hicks. Hicks characterized his own performances as "Chomsky with dick jokes" - Riane Eisler
Dr. Eisler tells us that the current political, economic, and cultural categories are useless for creating conditions that support compassion and sustainability area. Thus, she began to recognize two systems of culture: the partnership system and the domination system. In the domination system, caring is devalued. In the partnership system, caring and compassion are two of the highest values. The real wealth of the nation is the contributions of people and nature. - Morris Berman
Morris Berman (born 1944) is an academic and a humanist cultural critic who specializes in Western cultural and intellectual history. Despite his status as an academic, Berman's books are written for a general audience. They are concerned with the state of Western civilization and with an ethical, historically responsible, or enlightened approach to living within it. - John David Ebert
John David Ebert (b. June 26, 1968) is a cultural critic and philosopher who has made several contributions to the study of mythology and popular culture. - Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley (born in Cardiff on 13 October, 1951) is a British design critic, cultural critic and author. Educated at Manchester University and Liverpool School of Architecture, he has worked as a museum curator, and was the first director of the Design Museum in London. He became nationally famous when he was appointed as creative director of the exhibition at the Millenium Dome in Greenwich. After a series of disputes he resigned in 1998. - Nadeem F. Paracha
Nadeem Farooq Paracha (Urdu: ندیم فاروق پراچہ, is a controversial Pakistani journalist, cultural critic, satirist and short story writer. He also writes as Nadeem F. Paracha or simply as “NFP." - Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford is an African American author and cultural critic, now living in North Carolina, United States. She writes children's books, poetry, history, and social commentary, and has won several awards. - Theodor Haecker
Theodor Haecker (June 4, 1879-April 9, 1945) was a German writer, translator and cultural critic. He is known for his consistent opposition to the Nazi regime, which took steps to silence him, and his connections with the German resistance to them. He was a translator into German of Kierkegaard and Cardinal Newman. He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1921. - Carolyn Cooper
Professor Carolyn Cooper (Ph. D) is a West Indian author and literary scholar. Born in Jamaica, Dr. Cooper currently heads the department of Literary and Cultural Studies, at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica. For the past 26 years she has lectured at the University of the West Indies, Department of Literature in English. - Jules Destrée
Jules Destrée was a Walloon lawyer, cultural critic and socialist politician. The trials subsequent to the strikes of 1886 have deterimed his commitment within the Belgian Labour Party. He wrote a "Letter to the King" in 1912, which is seen as the funding declaration of the Walloon movement. He is famous for his quote "Il n'y a pas de Belges" ("There are no Belgians"), pointing to the lack of patriotic feelings in Flemings and Walloons, … - Touré
Touré (born March 20, 1971) is an African-American novelist, music journalist, cultural critic, and television personality based in New York City. - Ernst von Wolzogen
Ernst von Wolzogen (April 23, 1855 - August 30, 1934 was a cultural critic, a writer and a founder of Cabaret in Germany. - László Földényi
- Brook
WRITER, EDITOR AND CULTURAL CRITIC. I have spent my entire life living. If you spent your entire life doing something else, I hope it's worth it. I love people, i love art, i love culture and i love the sun! basically you can find me at any and all social, cultural and political gatherings at your house, loft, gallery, lounge, restaurant, street, block, school, city, town, state or country and I will be critiquing whatever's popping there. - Lynn Ashworth
I'm Canadian (from Montreal et oui je parle français) I have a Master's degree in Anthropology but have decided to devote my life to wandering the earth in search of entertainment and hangovers. I always wonder if I come across as a pisshead when having to write these stupid things up. I may be, in moments of dillusion, a well- rounded, intelligent, charming and interesting person. Who drinks. Like a sailor. - Graham Preston
After conquering Vancity during my BA (Hon.) in English at UBC, I earned an MA in English at the University of Toronto while becoming a departmental rockstar, and concurrently killing the concept of "Torontopia." (Check my pics for evidence of the former.) I'm now overseas at the University of Melbourne pursuing a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies - subcultural studies and transnationalism, to be precise. I "run" a critically-acclaimed (seriously) - Michael Tobin
People usually call me "deep" but I'm extremely extroverted so I'm blessed with a lot of smart and interesting friends. I'm an intensely one-on-one sort of person and I do best in private settings whether it's business or scholarship or love. I think every subject and every person is worth my attention on some level. I just really love humanity and life and fun. - Angela
- Hiawatha Needlebaum
I am the child of Ronald and Anita Needlebaum, two highly regarded art critics in the western Tennessee region. My father was stout and tall, and had a thirst for knowledge and life and his children. My mother was the picture of serene Southern charm, and the most intelligent blonde female to never attend secondary school. My upbringing was undertaken with the utmost tenderness and affection. I am the product of a two impressively well-bred human beings.
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