Sunday Reading
...'built' Dubai Researching Middle East history in French archives "The modern concept of private ownership has done a lot of damage to communities" Anarchists in Education: The Free Popular University...
Dissecting the Frog
...case study, Coleman considers the quip “RTFM” (“Read the Fucking Manual”). In free and open software (F/OSS) circles, the semi-comedic command to figure things out yourself is one method by...
Sunday Reading
...Q&A with Souvid Datta Why not kill them all?: In Donetsk What Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Can Learn From History Free Economic Zone Plan Slammed as ‘Suicide’ Pact for Taiwan...
Migratory Words
...the film, you talk about – you’re at this market, and you say something like, Here the free flow of capital is celebrated; the free flow of the world’s citizens,...
The Pitfalls of Indie Fame
...it. Somehow, I hadn't read a single story about Fargo Rock City, so I wasn't even sure what genre of writing it was supposed to exist alongside. The only thing...
red dots
...inhabited by the figure on the “left.” I’m trying not to make too much of a politics framed as “left/right,” because I’m not sure how well it translates across geo-histories....
Girl Talk
...conversation starter, I’ve been failing in my central mission. I know that you can’t just jump into a conversation by asking the really meaty stuff, sure. But if I truly...
The Unbearable Awkwardness of Being
...sure everybody else stops going along too.” In her ultimately catastrophic turn from socialite writer to urban guerrilla, Meinhof raised questions about complacency that continue to cut deep. In Meinhof’s...
Dark Pages
...(including The Congo Free State and The Commission for the Protection of the Natives) to give his actions a veneer of respectability, but Casement, through clear, unequivocal description, direct testimony,...
Pinterest and the acquisitive gaze
...well and good, though I'm not sure that making window shopping more convenient is in any way "anticonsumerist." If anything that seems to reinforce the consumerist mentality while overcoming one...
The Ardor of Secession
...within the broader Anglo-Atlantic world, petitioning would remain central to the political imaginations of non-franchised subjects of all kinds: women, free blacks, even slaves. Petitioning was also a primary tool...
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Hall of Mirrors
...access, her total participation, her total ecstasy doesn’t create. It destroys. Little wonder her desires fell silent to Lacan’s deaf ears. Contrary to “the self-absorbed, masculine narcissism, making sure of...
I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream
...the last several decades and Hello Kitty, at the symbolic level, is leading the way. Sure, Japanese men control the political and economic structures and all the trappings of power...
Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance
...great risk to themselves in places like Sapelo Island and St. Simons Island – self-contained majority-Black enclaves with large, centralized plantation infrastructures. The first piece of Islamic jurisprudence written on...
Chinua Achebe and the Damnation of Faint Praise
...great writer, full stop. I’m not sure anyone could do what he did. And while it may seem like a small point, like complaining that a genuine compliment just isn’t...