Five Questions with CAConrad
...in a most monotonous vernacular of infrastructure. (Soma)tic Poetry is how I challenge myself these days. The aim of (Soma)tic poetry and poetics is the realization of two basic ideas:...
Everything Fantastic is Credible: “Bombay’s Republic,” week one
...general point is simple: the idea that returning WWII veterans were a major cause or force for African decolonization is simply not borne out by any evidence. This requires us...
Army of Un
...only first-person account in the novel, is a professional torturer, an artist of pain; his job is not only to extract confessions, but to destroy his victims’ identity. (He describes...
Social Media, Social Factory
...capacity for abstraction and learning." In other words, communication, consumption, and sociality serve simultaneously as work and nonwork, while substituting freely for one another. Social media supply the infrastructure for...
Sunday Reading
...commitment to transparency, his exceptionally cohesive policy toward journalists and his professional defense of free speech. On the props, a great indicator of what to vote against: California ballot measures...
Blogging the Caine Prize 2012
...and any -phonia other than English. Which simply is what it is: like the Commonwealth and Booker prizes, the Penguin AWS and most other “African” prizes/series pretty exclusively focus on...
Gentle Protests: An Interview with Andreas Malm
It might be necessary to consider escalating
“The men will not do it”: 19th Century Sex Work and Reform
...already had volunteers and vital infrastructure in place. By encouraging women to leave their homes and work for social progress, these early reform societies laid the groundwork for some of...
Sunday Reading
...the Quiet Queering of Professional Sports The WNBA Can Teach Male Athletes About Coming Out and Being Allies Jason Collins Has “Reframed the Conversation” Around Sports, Blacks and Homophobia Why...
From Autonomen to Antifa
Exploring the roots of modern antifa in the German Autonomen movement of the eighties: an interview with George Katsiaficas
The Contagious Assembly
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
MoW Memorandum
...the financial system, particularly mismanagement of water infrastructure and amenities. Stockton California, Jefferson County Alabama, Camden New Jersey, and San Juan Puerto Rico have all tapped into similar financial institutions...
London, Underground
...right-wing television personality and professional semi-buffoon who was recently re-elected as Mayor, has recorded a number of announcements reassuring Londoners that the “huge pressure on the transport network” will be...
The Slopes of Davos
...from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization: “climatesmart.” Being climate smart means searching for synergies across mitigation and adaptation, across the demands of the carbon cycle and the GDP –...
Bloodless Lies
...is a professional community organizer while the other is a fixture of progressive publications including Dissent and Yes! Magazine. The book has been praised effusively by lefty celebrities, including Bill...
After #CadaanStudies
...we were meeting once again in Finland reflected a vacuum of institutional capacity and funding infrastructure to support academic research about the Horn in the Somali territories. It also showed...