Marginal Returns
...version, Selma, Lord, Selma, played on the Disney Channel before TV was hip, so that didn’t really count. DuVernay’s quickly shot and edited movie (it just wrapped in the summer)...
What Even is African Literature Anyway
...Senghor’s version of negritude. (That was part of the chapter I wrote in three weeks or so and was completely unnecessary.) What seems paradoxical about Senghor’s aesthetics is that against...
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
...debates around Net Neutrality. In December of 2017, the United States’ Federal Communications Commission voted to end the 2015 Open Internet Order instituted under President Obama. The Open Internet Order...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sunday Reading
...has already given birth to a robustrevolutionary gemeinschaft that will stay with these societies no matter who and what is in power. Unbeknown to the political machinations that have divided...
Charles Manson Was a Republican
Long incorrectly associated in the public mind with the political left, Manson wasn’t merely conservative; he might as well have been a Fed
A Taste of Cesium
...year after the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011, people venturing into the twenty-kilometer exclusion zone around the stricken power plant in Fukushima found...
Exporting the Revolution
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)
Un(der)known Writers: Flavia Dzodan
...The Hague this weekend, which gathered around five hundred white Dutch people showing “support” for this character, was a demonstration of power. That is, the power of the White majority...
How to Destroy a Community
...untie the binds of community by putting pressure on the group until individuals stop thinking of themselves as part of the larger collective. Power blocs in Eve are made up...
Chemistry
...just to fall in love with the service.” In an effort to destabilize white women’s contemporary narratives around sexual power, Hiji Nam interviewed Grace M. Cho, associate professor of sociology,...