Beauty Blogosphere 8.31.12
...western world. Two great bits of street harassment art: Hijabi to the rescue graffiti, and a stereotype-inversion cartoon. (I'm almost afraid to publicly like this cartoon, for fear that a...
Sunday Reading
...about an hour. Ms Deutsch, who was able to peek around the corner, saw President Yudof walk up, shake each officer’s hand, and thank each one individually. She leaned out...
Out of Sight
...sitting at my desk in my office, writing this article in Microsoft Word. Because I lack the discipline to put my iPhone on “Do Not Disturb”, the iPhone is chiming...
Going LeBron
...now a summer analyst at the same company. I found out through LinkedIn, and wish her the best in her future endeavors. It seems clear that Yale needs her more...
My Soul to Keep
...1990s, and its emblems tend to be companies themselves rather than those who founded them. (According to Crary, these include Microsoft, Google, and the like.) In an important sense, then,...
American Saints
...entrepreneur also fits into a very particular version of America’s history, bridging that past with the future of the world. America, this story goes, was built, ruled, and dominated by...
Return of The Managerial Demiurge
...circulation but from being able to privatize the commons by force and extract rents through regimes of intellectual property enforcement and that sort of thing. He offers Microsoft as an...
Sunday Reading
...to Mega-Algorithms Has "Zombie Urbanism" Gripped the Global City? The Policy Machine #TalkPay #Talkpay Surges as Twitter Users Fight Inequality by Revealing Own Pay Microsoft's Unionized Contract Workers Get Aggressive...
The More Things Change
...military analyst, and spent decades investigating waste, fraud, and abuse in the Army and Department of Defense. He was the nexus of Cerasoli’s idealism and a local’s familiarity with “how...
Bloodsport
...measured more than ever, rated for efficiency with acronyms that would make federal bureaucrats blush. But at the heart of every sport is some version of the law “Any given...
Room to Despair
...less of the bills. The community may care, but capital couldn’t care less. The government’s response has been to redefine sickness and incapacity. Strict new welfare tests ensure that the...
Sunday Reading
...Despair: A Prisoner Who Proved Gitmo Is Immoral "Was the Arab Spring Really Worth It?": The Fascinating Arrogance of Power Screwing Working People CTU Strike FAQ Gerry's Advice for the...
Disband West Virginia
...level, it will only impede development of a sustainable organ harvesting industry, all the while failing to empty the state completely. Yet if poisoning the water for 300,000 people is...
Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel
...students with everyone else under the keywords community and hope and love. Back in April we watched Tout va bien, blocked banks and finished our theses. And in May there...
Feminist Anthropology Part II
...students; mechanisms of accountability need to come from those in power, those whose careers aren’t at risk from reporting. As Mingweig Huang writes, even among feminist ethnographers, rape still remains...
African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Since I’m remembering this, or making it up, there is only darkness; our bodies speaking. Eat, your pelvis tells me. I eat—savoring your...