Opening the Gate
...the people who are shutting that gate behind them will realize that, actually, things are happening, and maybe they will be willing to open this gate. What do you think...
"Let Loose Your Tongue"
...dystopia is that everyone believes it’s actually a utopia, that Big Brother is actually our, you know, big brother. But even though people are optimistic that the Gate will eventually...
On Privatization and Brutalizing Campuses
...his own campus, compare these images of Sather Gate, which stands on the northern tip of Sproul Plaza: (photo via UCBerkeleyNewsMedia, Occupy Cal) To this imitation of the gate at...
Fear of an Ape Planet
...Gate Bridge. Ultimately, thanks to the dual processes of mutual aid (freeing the chimps from their cages, feeding them cookies) and propaganda (dosing them with Franco’s brain gas) the chimps...
Break It Down
...little distance away, behind the safety of a metal gate, some people watch the men at work. The watchers let the work continue undisturbed. They do nothing, are able to...
Prefab Freedom
ATV use has soared since the pandemic started. But this new off-roading trend also rehearses familiar myths about the American west and American freedom.
Us and Them
...only indirectly, through the lens of “ordinary” Muslims, or through purported jihadists, like Reynaldo in Lorrie Moore’s Gate at the Stairs or Jaguar in Jess Walter’s Zero, who turn out...
City of the Moon
...dozen museums, a shopping center, and a water amusement park. “Jericho Gate,” as the project is called, is the first tourist-aimed gated community to be built in Palestine, coming on...
We Call It a Dismantling Process
Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike
Smash Images from Antiquity
...for the Islamic State. He is standing at the Nergal gate, one of the gates on the northern side of the city of Nineveh, the oldest and most populous city...
May Day 2012
...Golden Gate Bridge shut down and the increasing awareness of the feminized and precarious, the current conditions are forcing a careful reconsideration of how work and labor are organized and...
Sunday Reading
...Eastern languages in China Eid in Moscow The Bible in Sanskrit (1848) /kaw·re?d?/: Egypt's cities: governed by spectacle The Gate of Shadows: Italy's migrant detention centres From Jungle to...
Psychic Refuge
...to be able to access psychiatric services; for example, in the UK, general practitioners, (GPs), are the gate-keepers to more specialized psychiatric care. GPs often provide self-report questionnaires for anxiety...
Sunday Reading
...Smith and Josef K. please return to the gate? Your flight is ready to depart.” * Ayn Rand’s Lord of the Rings * NYPD Used Force On Occupy Protests ‘Without...
The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...non-depth) of a David Brooks column, maybe a 6 minute reading time, because its claims only work if you don’t interrogate their foundational premises too much. For example. On May...
Preferential Immunity
...move which Arundhati Roy describes as "vertical secession," gates are after the immunization not part of it, and are oriented toward maximizing speed. The gate becomes a passageway that exists...