Vince Carducci

Vince Carducci is a cultural critic and publisher of the blog Motown Review of Art. He writes about the visual and literary arts, popular and consumer culture, politics, and the media. In 2010, he received the Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship for Criticism. He is Dean Emeritus at College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Follow him on Twitter @cultrindustreez
Manufacturing Victory: ‘The Arsenal of Democracy’

Manufacturing Victory: ‘The Arsenal of Democracy’

The story of how Ford Motor Company's assembly-line techniques helped America win WWII, and the behind-the-scenes battles waged in order to get it done.
‘The Creative Class’ Rises Again

‘The Creative Class’ Rises Again

Richard Florida is one-upping Karl Marx, casting the creative class as the rightful inheritors of the fruits of the Earth.
‘Detroit City is the Place to Be’ Is Part ‘Blade-Runner’ Travelogue, Part Gen-X Memoir

‘Detroit City is the Place to Be’ Is Part ‘Blade-Runner’ Travelogue, Part Gen-X Memoir

Detroit is one of America's most notorious clusterfucks. It's also recently emerged as a perceived land of opportunity.

We Are Ensnared in the Sticky Web of Control: ’24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep’

Steve Hughes, Washed in Dirt

From Highfalutin Academics to Cutting-Edge Street-Level Remixers: ‘Cutting Across Media’

‘The Beach Beneath the Streets’: A Pleasant Meander Through the Situationist Labyrinth

Gentrification and Its Discontents

‘The Bonds of Debt’ Constitute a Common Good by Binding Us Inextricably to One Another

‘The Detroiters’ Captures Motor City Advertising, ‘Mad Men’ Style

Confessions of a Political Romantic: Christopher Hitchens’ ‘Hitch-22’

Re: Reading Chronic City