(This site looks best using Internet Explorer 5 with a resolution of 800 x 600 or better. Designed on a Mac.) Welcome to Brian's Magic Theatre, the homepage of Brian Milstein, a PhD student in political science at the New School for Social Research in New York City. I designed this site to display some of my artwork, my academic work, and favorite links around the web. Æsthetics Here is where you can find most of my original material. See my artwork and some of my grad school papers. You can also see my short Steppenwolf piece (leftover from my site at Vassar). Linx These pages include links to my favorite sites and also to sites on international politics, internet art, hypertext, and other stuff. Misk I recently added my resume to this section. Otherwise, mainly personal info: a short bio, favoite movies, books, and bands, etc. Soon I'll be adding more stuff like photos and, well, miscellany. Awards Okay, so there's only one right now, but apparently web etiquette requires a separate page for them. Technorati Profile I'm just getting started on this -- I honestly don't know what it does. Site Map Finding your way around the site should be pretty easy, but here is everything spelled out just in case. E-Mail Let me know what you think! Recent papers by Brian Milstein: Notes on Political Theory The Crisis of External Sovereignty Recommended books: Global headlines provided by

14 October, 2005 Top of page 21.46 EDT Link Introducing "beagle blogging"! 8 October, 2005 Top of page 14.09 EDT Link Read Nathan Gardels's interview with Salman Rushdie on the Huff'n-Puff. Rushie is one of my favorite authors, and these are his views on radical Islam and the motivation of terrorists, which are central themes in his new novel, Shalimar the Clown. 13.52 EDT Link It's been so long since I touched this site, I barely remember how to do this stuff! Well, for now, I'm back, although I'll only be updating my weblog sporadically. I also won't be doing political commentary like I used to, first because it's too time-consuming, second, because the blogosphere is already way overcrowded with self-appointed pundits, and, finally, because politics in this country has gotten to the point where it pretty much speaks for itself. In any case, I'm busy working on my dissertation proposal, and on that note...can anybody tell me about the relationship between Parsonian structural-functionalism and modernization theory? 26 November, 2004 Top of page 11.29 EST Link I suppose it's pretty clear by now that I'm not blogging any more, at least for the time being. I still haven't come up with a layout concept to replace the front page of the site, but I should have time to work on that when the semester ends. 'Til then... Brian (no entries 10 June through 25 November, 2004) 24 May, 2004 through 9 June, 2004 13 May, 2004 through 22 May, 2004 17 April, 2004 through 8 May, 2004 27 March, 2004 through 11 April, 2004 12 March, 2004 through 26 March, 2004 24 February, 2004 through 9 March, 2004 3 February, 2004 through 23 February, 2004 2 January, 2004 through 23 January, 2004 8 December, 2003 through 29 December, 2003 14 November, 2003 through 4 December, 2003 6 November, 2003 through 13 November, 2003 27 October, 2003 through 5 November, 2003 26 September, 2003 through 26 October, 2003 13 August, 2003 through 24 September, 2003 8 July, 2003 through 5 August, 2003 (no entries 29 May through 7 July, 2003) 13 April, 2003 through 28 May, 2003 6 April, 2003 through 12 April, 2003 30 March, 2003 through 5 April, 2003 20 March, 2003 through 29 March, 2003

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