Caterwaul Quarterly is a web-based collective which aims to create a forum for engagement with the world from a variety of sharp angles. CQ features critical analysis, reflection, and expression on politics, science, and the arts. By exploring the contours of these divisions CQ stands witness to synthesis, dissonance, and the transformative aspects of human experience.
Caterwaul Quarterly
Ever challenging the conventional definition of "quarterly", CQ expects to deliver you another issue by mid-May early June. You may sit on your hands.
(Photograph: Sara Lafleur-Vetter)
Politics & Society
Uncool Passion: Conviction and the Spirit of Deregulation
Jean Comaroff
Free Markets and Religious Fervor Are What's Hot
Questioning Market Fictions: Economic Knowledge and the Possibilities of a Real Economy
Daniel Denvir
Why we all need to learn more economics.
Let Me In!
Christopher Moses
The college essay and America’s education unease
Eagle Point, Oregon: Life and Death in the American West
Julia McCallum
In Eagle Point, Oregon, the houses have wheels, the husbands are unfaithful and the land is on its way to sub-development. And because nothing lasts, time moves faster here; methamphetamine addictions are abundant, cars speed, teenagers are parents and the middle aged are elderly. Young men leave for Iraq, old men rarely leave their bar stools and lonely wives and mothers invite strangers into their homes.
Take Me out to the Suburbs: Baseball, White Flight, and Radio Advertisement in Chicago (Or Thereabouts)
Erik Cameron
What follows isn’t some facile analysis of everything wrongheaded in the Manifest Destiny ad. What concerns me here is the weird glimpse that radio spots offer into the collective id of their target audience, at least as conceived by the people buying and selling airtime.
Message Force Multipliers
Sara Lafleur-Vetter
Daniel Denvir
In April 2008, a New York Times special investigation revealed that the Pentagon, in coordination with the Bush administration, "courted a troop of retired military men to serve as trained PR agents for the White House on major broadcast outlets." In exchange for their good behavior, they received special briefings and political access for the defense contractors who they represented.
Literature
Manhattan, Montana
D. Iasevoli
a poem by D. Iasevoli with photo accompaniment by Ryann Liebenthal
Llega el invierno como se camina por la nieve / Winter Arrives as one Walks Through the Snow
By Teresa Soto / Translated into English by Nicholas Callaway
a poem in Spanish by Teresa Soto and translated into English by Nicholas Callaway
History in the Making: Michel Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles
Kasia Kunicka
a book review by Kasia Kunicka
On Ada
Matthew Broad
a poem by Matthew Broad
Arts
Fashion and its Disconnects
Katie Sabo
Fashion is a peculiar field. It is one of the most deeply and explicitly commodified forms of art, but also the most artful form of mass consumerism
Square-Wave Weaving
Sarah Margaret Halpern
Electronic Folk Art
Song and Stage in the Backwoods of Latvia
Michael Pape
Baltic Wanderlust
One Place Leads To Another
Sara Lafleur-Vetter
Adventures in Photography in Russia and Central Asia
Aquatint Explosions
Jesse Boardman Kauppila
Devastating explosions in 19th century print shops were replicated. Printing plates were exposed to these explosions and prints were made from them.
Scaterwaul Quarterly
Celeste Broderick
A look at Gov. Palin's public stool proposals for America--and something else, too.
Two-Face: American military identity in blockbuster films
David Golann
Is Batman passé? The Joker may hate our freedom, but we love his wit and ingenuity.
Four Un-Famous Views of New York City
Nicholas Callaway
Four woodcut prints of New York City's spaces in between.
Unaltered: Studies with Film and No Batteries
Mike Coll
A series of photographic studies on the raw beauty of the physical world using light, time, and film.
