Quote of the day
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Marshall Fishwick

Born: July 5, 1923
Died: May 22, 2006 (aged 82)
Bio: Marshall William Fishwick was an American multidisciplinary scholar, professor, writer, and editor who started the academic movement known as popular culture studies and established the journal International Popular Culture.
Known for:
- Seven Pillars of Popular Culture (1985)
- Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture (2006)
- Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace (1999)
- Popular Culture in a New Age (2002)
- The Virginia Tradition (1956)






