Chaos Will Set You Free
Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a novel that embraces its own instability to narrate the palimpsests of violence that bind the U.S. and the Philippines
Swarovski Kristallnacht
...and all, is a loss for the Met; the institution has forsaken an opportunity to confront fashion as hate speech and still stand by its validity as oracle. In Bodies...
News From Nowhere
...the things people said about falling in love, about the initial torrent of joy, were a lie.” I underlined these words. I remember thinking them, too often, in every romantic...
How Bad Is It?
...church social and charitable groups, union halls, civic clubs, bridge clubs, and yes, bowling leagues — disappeared; by Putnam’s estimate, one-third of our social infrastructure vanished in these years. Frequency...
Assemblage Required
...consciousness. The experience of passion and impetus and love, for example, she likens to “wet grass” that “stinks like shit” but nonetheless remains “unaccountably and endlessly good.” She feels compelled...
Climate Changed
...a torrent of understanding from contemporaneous readers. Modernity and its potential for infinite destruction (a potential to be tested severely in 20th century warfare) had taken hold. There was no...
Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
...thing, but it’s for damn sure an annoying-as-fuck thing!” Weezy’s entries end with nightly rituals of communal commissary meals For more about these meals and a list of recipes I...
Sunday Reading
...of Ottoman rule on Baghdadi Arabic Materials for learning Syriac (Aramaic) The world’s first Abkhaz-Ossetian dictionary The Teaching of Urdu in British India Madrasas where Muslim children study Sanskrit, Hindu...
Care: The Highest Form of Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen’s latest book covers America's care economy, its carceral legacy, and the potential for intervention in systems of exploitation.
Have you read Stendhal?
...They were pleased when cramped, muzzled, and famished [these counter-activities took place at S-52]. Development image of a segment of magnetic tape 11. The signals were examined and compared to...
Sunday Reading
...materials that make up refrigerator walls that could potentially turn them into anti-eavesdropping devices" "I need a new arsenal of swear words that punch up and tear down destructive stereotypes"...
Sunday Reading
...write the authors, allows them to study crowd behavior" "the continued cause for concern is a slightly embarrassing absence of blood" google street scene Kitabet: A Reader's War: "I know...
Sunday Reading
...from powerful institutions being granted yet another competitive edge over those who were less fortunate, less wealthy, or simply born in the wrong place. But this is still an understatement....
Blood platinum is not a solid but a gas
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-jdMbe6e3g  34 dead and 78 wounded.   From clouds of toxic gas Tear gas, likely not the British-designed CR gas (dibenzoxazepine) with nerve agent used during apartheid...
Sunday Reading
...Academic Job Market CUNY Declares War on Rebel Faculty Painkiller Post What Happened to Shulamith Firestone Telegraph Avenue http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/how-coal-brought-us-democracy-and-oil-ended-it-lessons-from-the-new-book-carbon-democracy.html http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/romney-will-solve-crisis-exact-same-gop-plan-2008-2006-2004 Debt Resistors' Operations Manual The Worst Teacher in Chicago No,...
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics
...being accessible to non-scientist readers. Niels Bohr’s choice to write with Margrethe Bohr and then with Betty Schultz was motivated by a desire to make sure that his work would...