Vernacular Criticism
...do is best addressed by the professional critics who write for those periodicals, rather than Yelp Âusers such as Saskia S. The accumulation of Yelp reviews over time is meant...
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...everyday. It is simply part of the mundane and necessary infrastructure of social life. But the article suggests also that kids must be trained to view the Web as a...
Search for a Method
...accurate information may not come in during the regular news cycle.” And yet the BIJ study, despite far more rigorous methodology, is not often cited in U.S. mainstream media accounts....
None of This Is Written By Me
...the good economic times of the 1990’s and early 2000’s, a series of tax cuts eroded what was left of the state’s ability to fund its schools, programs, and infrastructure,...
From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
A moment of dreaming about higher education
...infrastructure which are slowly crumbling into disrepair. Our public university system—which similarly crumbles—dates back to that era as well, to the energies which were released by the new deal, and...
Virus in the System
The radical collective Gay Shame keeps the flame of anticapitalist queer politics burning.
The American Studies Association Goes to Politics
...are a tenured professor, your academic freedom derives from an infrastructure that denies it to others, systemically: because your job is safe, the jobs of others are precarious (or vice...
Il Salvataggio Selvaggio
...drag it to shore and make of it free housing, criss-crossed inside by ladders, burrowing out new passages. It will, after all, have an oceanfront view. Its fuel will be...
Strike Force
...of normal expenses such as taxes, social security—there is no overtime when the work is done by inmates. Companies finance PACs, then pressure politicians, to their advantage, to pass laws...
"Let Loose Your Tongue"
...of liberation,” double-blegh. Aaron: “Woman as motherland” is a really common move, right? I’m thinking of the peasant girl in Miramar, but I’m sure you can name dozens of examples...
All Presidents
...as such, was justified, necessary, and maybe even a good thing. Mandela’s “terrorism” targeted infrastructure, not people. But he was also a bit out of step with the younger face...
What Even is African Literature Anyway
...and of the “African writer”? I’m not quite sure what I mean, and I know it’s more than simply about locations of production/circulation/reception. And I also know it’s got something...
Search Terms
...sentence. I’m not completely sure what it means, and that might be why he uses the work of an installation artist as a figure for what he wants from African...
Sunday Reading: October 29, 2023
...professionally (by blacklisting), technologically (by suppressing content), financially (by buying silence and support). Still, they cannot stop the tide. The credit for this moment goes not to social media but...
Sunday Reading, June 18, 2023
...out.In this issue, a duo of sex workers share what they’ve learned from their professional family obligations. Alana Massey addresses the young sugar baby as she would a junior trainee,...