The Jersey Punk Basement Scene: Exploring the Information Underground

Postmodernism and Punk Subculture: Cultures of Authenticity and Deconstruction

This paper examines punk subcultures as a response to “the condition of postmodernity,” defined here as a crisis of meaning caused by the commodification of everyday life. Punk musicians and subcultures have responded to this crisis in one of two ways. Like other forms of “plank parody” associated with postmodernism, the “culture of deconstruction” expresses nihilism, ironic cynicism, and the p...

St Cuthbert's Deathbed Speech: Why Did Bede Write a Second Prose Life?

Christopher Hamilton graduated with a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in May 2013. He majored in religious studies, philosophy, and history, and minored in economics. Chris enjoys human beings, animals, the Northwoods, bonfires, beer, tobacco, Terrance Malick films, and underground anarchist punk rock shows. He waits for the dawn of that day "when the dryness and the rain fina...

Youth Subculture in Pula. from the Occurrence of Punk to the Dispersal of the Alternative Scene Summary

On the Nature of Resistance: The Chicago Hardcore Punk Scene and Levels of Opposition to the Dominant Culture

Very little has been written from a sociological or urban studies perspective about the hardcore punk subculture in the United States. Further, few studies have dealt with this social group’s ideology and tendency towards overt resistance to mainstream culture. In this study, I give a general perspective of the hardcore subculture and then, using basic univariate and bivariate analyses, show th...

An Indoor Positioning System for Disaster Management

Emergency situations in large buildings and underground structures are a challenge for emergency staff as the difficulty to overview a scene grows with its size. During the operation information about the incident is collected. Almost every piece of information is linked to a location (such as seat of fire, hazardous substances, etc.). Most of those information artefacts affect barely mobile ob...