Sunday Reading
...challenge my students simply by existing." TERFs of the Times Object Oriented Feminism (Audio) Jacob Remes: What we can and can't learn from free Norwegian higher ed A class struggle...
Against TED
...over the outrageously high cost of attending its events or the exclusion of voices from outside Silicon Valley, but to its credit, the conference has made the talks free to...
Nothing Short of a Revolution
...That the answer to the problems of the last three weeks can be solved by simply voting in new people (and they better be Democrats, otherwise they deserve what’s coming...
The Ahmeds in America, Part Three
...best, despite the many serious social and environmental problems in the U.S. Other cultures are often evaluated as better or worse than this one, rather than simply different. One has...
Pasado Compuesto
...Dadi Dreucol (con On_ly), No future, Valencia 2012. All images come from the blog Escrito en la pared. A new social epidemic is gripping Spain: the foreclosure suicide...
Special Victims
...date rape for example, is simply a misunderstanding. That’s what many commentors said on online forums when in season two of Mad Men, Joan was raped by her husband. Christina...
Too Brilliant to Bathe
...it likely that the cliché of the unwashed genius leads us to ignore a great many men who really are suffering, who don't have it together socially or professionally, but...
Closing the Loop
...of Nicki Minaj’s wax figurine at Madame Tussaud's are a charming offline reminder of this. Sure, we can all join in celebrating Nicki, but let us not forget that she...
Feral Memes
...triggering powerful affective responses to baby animals with analogous traits. Cuteness does not simply trigger tender, caretaking feelings but also paradoxical impulses of domination and aggression. In a tweet posted...
The Selfless Man
...seeming admission that he is less a person than an interchangeable part of the machines that he supposedly commands. He is simply the Driver, and he need not be more,...
Unthinkable Tableaus
...this choice, and the question is not a simply one. In the United States, for example, one finds a strong moral argument against calling a person who has been raped...
Baghdad, Utopia
...to identify communists who had previously operated in secret, and subsequently prosecute them. Those who had survived the massacres and managed to get hold of a passport eventually fled to...
Of Being Numerous
...at stake. Bipartisan lawmaker cohorts have demanded an end to the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ communications data; the preposterously named USA Freedom Act is gaining traction primarily on this...
Teju Cole's Afrolicious Playlist
...an Afrolicious top ten. 10. Just A Band- "Usinibore" An amazing music/video collective from Kenya. Are they funk? House? Disco? Who cares. They're simply fearless Kenyan lads. This is not...
Reading Katehi: The Pepper Spray Chancellor
...place to prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening. The problem was that Linda Katehi and company simply ignored them and did whatever they felt like. This is why...
Herzog's Caves
...as to their actual size, we simply accept the cave images as they appear to us in their cinematic enormity. They lose their objecthood and become pure image-ideas. The French...