We Mock What We Don't Understand
...community was lurking just around the corner, that the obstacles to this ultra-Hollywoodesque happy ending were merely empirical and contingent (local pockets of resistance where the leaders had not yet...
Vol. 21 Editors' Note: Witches
...promise of another midnight. In a male-supremacist society, female power must logically appear illogical, mysterious, intimate, threatening. “Witch” stands for all those unnamable shadow acts of disappearance and withdrawal, self-cultivation...
Witches
...sorcerer, capital. Though the witching hour of history may have passed, there is always the promise of another midnight. In a male-supremacist society, female power must logically appear illogical, mysterious,...
The American Studies Association Goes to Politics
...elected (not him). This is both the lure of consensus, and its mystifying power. If we can just put aside “politics,” and come together, as Americans, then by the power...
Sunday Reading
...never fix education "Let us celebrate an education that allows us to articulate our own complicity with power, and question and destroy it." Undercommoning the university I am not a...
Political Language on Police States and Political Language
...have no conjuring power "when we really do need them." Ok, sure. I will concede that point. But let me now compartmentalize and diminish the consequences of the point Exum...
Which Briefcase Full of Money Are You?
...of guns, grenades, a rocket launcher, a flamethrower. I mean, guitars are cool, money is cool, but when it comes to the really pure masculinist fantasy of total power, guns...
Party Like It’s 1992
Early colonization and current gentrification are linked by their use of cages to gain land and exert zero-sum autonomy over those with darker skin
Whose Streets?
An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain
Secondary Modern
...poet's preoccupation with exposing the inherent spiritual and sensual communicative power of everyday life. Rancière lucidly depicts the combination of a new American materialism with German Romanticism, creating poetry as...
Beyond MLK
...the great problems of Martin Luther King’s career: his compromised position in relation to the white power structure. Califano may have jumped the shark when he wrote that “Selma was...
Time Is a Killer
...and old age. Moving through stages sets off not merely a loss of beauty and attention but, more interestingly, a decline of control over the power to perform. Aging, as...
The Body Always Remembers
...an “assault” on her feminist politics, which depend on limitless sexual opportunity and could be encapsulated as: To fuck is to know, power is fluid in sexual relations, you can...
The Grandiose Vacuity of "Rock the Lips"
...on this initiative.) So what about International Women’s Day? I’m feeling ambivalent about it and am trying to figure out why. Undoubtedly, plenty of good comes out of it. Some...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...of what things mean to them and no respect for them or their consent. Power dynamics make it so the same cultural things more marginal people are shamed and belittled...
Catcalls, Compliments, and Weariness
...I take them as any assessment of my actual appeal, rather as an assessment of power and claiming of public space. But to steel myself for a catcall and to...