System Failures
...drone aircraft via satellite on their computers. This footage troubles the power the American government imagines is exercised through unmanned systems’ real-time surveillance, suggesting the video link might be more...
Sunday Reading
...Halal Portrait of a South African projectionist From Bushehr with Love Iconoclasts vs. Iconodules: Understanding the Power of the Icon On translating classical Tamil love poetry Digital, Aesthetic, Ephemeral: The...
Get Thee to a University
...suffered pepper-spraying and arrest for so meager a version of liberty as the neoconservative aughties bequeathed us. After all, if I have anyone to thank for the fact that I'm...
Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You
...connection. He places Malcolm more firmly in a Third World context, moving away from the Alex Haley version of the story, toward Bandung and Mecca. Drawing on recent research on...
Viral Oppression
...The principle of "reality" as an acceptable description of experience is pegged not to "accuracy" or even an ideologically inflected, loaded version of accuracy, but to "seriality" and "coordination" and...
Sunday Reading
...beyond the Garden: Is the Bible Ever Read in its Context? The English Version (1649) of André du Ryer's Translation of the Qur'an An Urdu speaker's experiences learning Hindi and...
Towards A New Film Criticism
...What is Hollywood? Hollywood is a pool of money, power, and people. Hollywood is a monomaniacal schizophrenic, making films at the voices’ instruction. Each film represents a different...
Assorted Thoughts on Social Mobility
...not merely matters of money; they are more matters of power and assumed privilege. (That sentence felt a little tautological. I hope it makes some sense.) At Marginal Revolution, Tyler...
Under the Rainbow
...prodigal child of the plague years, is white, middle-class and upwardly mobile. Its telos is further incorporation into the state and structures of power that aim to destroy Black life....
Sunday Reading
...kill, harass, corral and incarcerate people. We willingly return power to the structure responsible for the violence in the first place, replicating the system of domination that we are trying...
Gay Life Against Marriage
...between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power...
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
Repetition Without Difference
...us. Indeed, from Jonah Lehrer to Fareed Zakaria (and reportedly 125 Harvard undergraduates) it seems that people in positions of power, prominence, and prestige are lining up to take themselves...
Consuming la Malinche, Destroying the Myth
...racial and gender conditions which compromised her position, Paz’s argument remains useful because he explains how colonialism’s psychological effects can withstand the departure of the colonial power. As the political...
CHAT ROOM: Activist Microcelebrities
...roots in the activists’ tactics If their tactics recapitulate some of the assumptions about "publics" you end up with the same political techniques in power despite the different faces in...
Mediums of Exchange
...capital, being for himself his own producer, being for himself the source of [his] earnings.” Such becoming is both precarious and transformative, and its power is such that it can...