Sunday Reading
...Gulf Security (1987) Restoring 1970s Tel al-Zaatar footage from the PLO film unit A Syrian version of Euripides’ The Trojan Women Soviet-Indian Coproductions: Alibaba as Political Allegory Pedagogy for Religion:...
The Impermanence of Beauty Work
...an oh-so-slightly exaggerated version of what we look like “naturally.” We wake up, create that effect, go about our business, fall asleep—and do it all again the next day. And...
TNI Vol. 11 Editorial Note: On the Movement of Food
...the food writers who always seem to commit the literary version of going to the grocery store hungry, we’re trying to see the movement of calories with fresh eyes....
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
...theories or hypotheses. But Crichton did the opposite: he turned the accident into an expectation, even a requirement. The movie poster for the 1973 feature film version of Westworld pitched...
Taming the Inexplicable
...himself as an artist, which makes The Witness the perfect piece of art for a design-obsessed, art-illiterate video-game crowd. The island’s version of nature, in the end, exists purely as...
Feast and Famine
...messy, planting is messy, and none of them is especially appetizing if you look too close. Unlike the food writers who always seem to commit the literary version of going...
Body, face, desire
...psychosexual manipulation of the male as a natural consequence. Unlike their sisters in the animal kingdom, human females don't openly advertise their ovulation. But even without a human version of...
Living is Easy
...taken a simple concept and struck gold for Comedy Central, who are now airing the second season of a half-hour version. In each episode, he visits a distinct American city,...
Paranoia at the Disco
...say its secret agenda was to stifle people’s political consciousness, a version of Abbie Hoffman’s complaint that disco was “Elegant. Ruling class ... Music not exactly designed to promote community...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 13
...to become a kinder and gentler version of myself. Who knows? Maybe sometime in the future when at a moral impasse, I might just pause and ask myself, “What would...
All Eyez on Not-Me
...were, for however briefly, awestruck. Tech bloggers raced to uncover the “Oz” behind Holopac, only to discover that it is basically the modern version of a 19th century technology called...
"Against Literary Passports: the Many Languages of African Literature" (Conference Paper)
...The long(er) version of a paper I delivered yesterday at the "From Asmara 2000 to Nairobi 2014: New Horizons and Trends in Africa Languages and Literatures" conference at Kenyatta...
The Gamble
...abandoning identity in politics, but developing a more radical version of it that advocates equality within a socialist critique of an economic system designed by and for predominantly white men...
LIES
...in other ways. What’s at stake is not authenticity or even the ever absent real. Rather we look for the narratives that have affixed us to this unbearable version of...
The "Sharing" Economy
...business like never before. Get stuffed!: Collaborative Consumption's version of an initial public offering. Were the emphasis of What’s Mine Is Yours strictly on giving things away, as opposed to...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Eighteen
...at 09:18 ◊ Found in Saved Mailbox Con cariño, Linda "Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) admired the canvas and painted his own version ("Nature morte à la raie") after making pilgrimages to...