Spinoza in a T-Shirt
...a body isn't means that all bodies are equally valid modes and forms of embodiment. Nothing is "not a body" and so everything is a body. This is not a...
Islamic Astropolitik
...portability of Islamic ritual space. However, purists might argue that the act of prayer will not be valid if not performed on earth’s terra firma. Muslims face, kneel, and prostrate...
White Magic
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
Death by Association
Calling on “black cyberpunk,” Roy Christopher’s book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future bestows the genre with a ghostly pallor, risking its political potential
Sunday Reading
...outdoor library in the Fruitvale and Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez Update: Occupy Tactics Meet Community Organizing in the Murder Dubs Occupy Year Two The Chomsky Problem We’re Going To Tax...
Crypto Vegas
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Sunday Reading
...and Cairo in America The History of Cartography (University of Chicago Press) in PDF format The history of National Geographic's cartographic typefaces On designing an Arabic/Persian typeface A comparison of...
Sunday Reading
...hound of hell. Kierkegaard's frenemies. Lucky duckie, you're the one; exposing systemic corruption. Helping drug dealers? Better be a bank. Will pilots soon be obsolete? Targeted ads coming to a...
The New Inquiry
...hope you will enjoy what we’ve done. A lot of work went into it and we're proud of the result. All our content will remain free on the site. And...
Sunday Reading
...Jacqui Shine: Turns out he never jumped on that couch after all ... but you have to be ready for that publicity game. The passion (?) of Barbara...
Obscenity: I Know It When I See It
...I can never tell how much the way it makes me feel comes from my emotional connection to her story. But I think there's plenty of rage-sadness to go around....
Sunday Reading
...the central problem for economists and economic agents alike." Hayekians must face up to the possibility that "free market ideology and deregulation itself may destroy the very institutions that market...
The Art Of Fiction: On Writing And Revenge
...when I am, on the page, very combative, very hostile. That’s true even when I write to praise, as is often the case. If I write about Colette, as I...
Sunday Reading
...veto power as been hired for $1,000 a day plus a free car. Is student debt the choke point of finance capitalism? Pay gap makes student debt burden worse for...
Damning With Faint Prize: Stanley Kenani’s “Love on Trial”
...example, Leopold Sedar Senghor declared that “African literature is politically committed” and you hear this sort of thing over and over again from that generation, and the one following it;...
Sunday Reading
...the Most Educated Workers Have Declining Wages The Gig Economy Won't Last The History of Future Education The Computer Ate my Homework Consider the Boolean College Faculties Have a Serious...