Sunday Reading
Meanwhile, on the internet.
Sunday Reading
Every week, the internet says a bunch of things. Here are SEVERAL of them.
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
A propos of absolutely nothing, a few texts I’ve found helpful in unpacking the aforementioned genre, in no particular order...
Sunday Reading
Propaganda, Lies and Suppression of Constitutional Rights by the Oakland Mayor’s Office, DA and OPD Nothing Was Desirable: A Review Of ‘Punk In Africa’ Palestine…
The Deep Resentment of Having to Think About It: Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
...why “privilege” is so importantly different from power or bigotry: privilege must remain ignorant of itself, because it’s the right to enjoy benefits which you aren’t even aware that others get denied...
On Privatization and Brutalizing Campuses
We knew he was out of town while campus police were brutalizing their campus, but that's all we knew.
Locations Requiring Further Examination
"Clientele is mainly American."
Santorum's Gifts
Alas! I made the mistake of reading Rick Santorum, and this knowledge led me into sin.
Sunday Reading
So much to say, and only a week and the internet to say it in.
The Earnestness of Being Grantham: Anglophonia and Marital Inaction
Everyone who writes about Downton Abbey accepts the premise that the show is a narrative of progress, the fin de siècle story of The Traditional that is about to be (and then is) buffeted by The Onrush of Modernity. It’s to the show’s credit that this is completely wrong.
Sunday Reading
Political Movements in Bahrain, Past, Present, and Future What We Owe to Each Other: An Interview with David Graeber, Part 1 and Part 2. The Moscow Protests, part one, two, three,…
Sunday Reading!
They say this internet has a million stories. Here are just a few of them. And also a hilarious picture of Frank Zappa with his folks.
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
In 1893, Mary Kingsley found herself with six months to kill, so she went to Africa. But the thing about being a Victorian lady is that you can go to the Gold Coast, but you can't get away from the mansplaining...
David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words
If anything, the limitation of this big book is actually that it’s not big enough, that it gestures towards -- without fully including – so very much that is within the ken of its ambition. But the short version of this review, simply, is this: I can’t really picture a better book than this one
Sunday Reading
On Sundays, I post a lot of links to things I think are worth reading, almost always from the previous week, and in exactly no…
Occupy The Library
I spent the early evening yesterday at the Berkeley anthropology library, which was officially to close at 5 p.m. It did not, because Occupy Cal occupied it