Rock of Nations
A leader of the Alcatraz Occupation discusses its successful tactics in reversing the federal policy of Indian termination
Sunday Reading
...recipe for social apatheid? Strange Waters Not Nowhere: Collaborating on Selfsame Land On the Stardom of M.S. Dhoni Kerim Friedman: Letter to SCOTUS from professional physicists Batman '66 Labels Chinese...
Five Questions with Juliana Spahr
...started to give this omission greater meaning—so she has generously allowed me to set it free.) Published twelve years ago, 'Metromania' reflected on the institutionalized American literary establishment, the nature...
Room Boys
...with the laundry ironed and returned in neat piles. The same goes for bedding and linen. A professional organising and labelling system ensures the clothes never get mixed up. It's...
TNI Vol. 12 Editorial Note: Hail or High Water
...professional geographer Jason Dittmer, for whom Kaplan’s “fundamental misunderstanding of geography” is the least of his failures. “Now even talking about the weather has become very political,” cautions Ursula Heise....
Sunday Reading
...Robust competition online: "Google has acquired an average of one company every week" since 2010. National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) cries foul. "Millions for me, starvation for you." M(id)as...
TNI Vol. 12 Editorial Note: Hail or High Water
...professional geographer Jason Dittmer, for whom Kaplan’s “fundamental misunderstanding of geography” is the least of his failures. “Now even talking about the weather has become very political,” cautions Ursula Heise....
“Happy Independence Day from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation!"
..."correct" herself through virtuous labor, and in doing so, cover up the fact that most prisons are simply warehouses for human suffering. Indeed, the photo originally comes from this story...
The Revolution Unhinged
...meant to pass around. On the front, an oversized exclamation point slaps Marie Antoinette upside the head. There’s no summary on the back – just a foot kicking in glass....
Speaking in Memes
...culture, a parallel to the biological gene in Richard Dawkins’s original coinage. Many have since adapted the term to describe how cultural products pass virally from person to person by...
Dick Picky
...Make Him Go Wild! Your Own Pleasure?! Who Cares!). Dated ideas about female sexuality linger in our cultural psyche, whispering to us that we simply aren’t visual creatures, that we...
The Potato System
...me. Here you can buy them right off the truck. The parking lots of shopping centers you pass have occupying them potato-laden pickups minded by flinty, denimed Yankees or smartphone-fondling...
Jennifer's Body, Redux: The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Actresses
...scary.” (Actually, that sounds terrifying, but I’ll give her a pass.) Decontextualized it’s sound logic, but within The Hunger Games it’s backward: Katniss, hailing from an impoverished part of the...
0D30
...are relieved when the figures inside are dead. To put it simply, this is a movie that teaches you how to fear terrorism and to reassure yourself with torture. But...
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
Better to Fade Away than to Burn Out?
...piece of criticism. Stevens gets straight to the point so … So here I go. Of course most writers pass their careers completely unnoticed by the general population, and many...