Inside Out, Namwali Serpell's "The Sack"
...story’s narrative completion, it un-resolves itself, taking you back to the beginning… only now, you’re inside out, upside down, looking out from looking in. If you turn a sack inside...
Courage, Please
...Robert Ashley died today. In memory of one who believed that the "technique of profound collaboration is essential." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza2GCF74lo ...
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
...Remix)”. This is a rough approximation of that mix, although the "Extended Death Match Remix" has a longer, woozier, beatless opening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scZeaErWVCY Damn, Snake’s bristly mind raced, she may be...
Sunday Reading
...for a Good Job? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up The fantasy of fetal personhood http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/08/mission-high-false-low-performing-school Syria: Neither Riyadh nor Tehran but Popular Revolution Teju Cole on going blind. Jane...
Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel
...Québec à Montreal (UQAM) and sociology grad students at Université Laval — wound through downtown Montreal and onto the McGill campus, there chanting “UQAM, McGill, même combat!” At a march...
—“but was it a peaceful protest?”
? ? ? Jabr abu Jordan, "Crossing Lines: Capoeira, Movement, Activism," June 2014 I was looking at a picture of Hamoudeh—Mohammad Azzehs’ nickname—being carried to a waiting...
Silten wares
The assembly line / It coughed And Thick was / The resultant silt It huffed / The silt thick And The trucks / Stunting like...
Have you read Stendhal?
...for difference and repetition (the ryon-ji garden of paths), 2011 Male subjects on intensive "treatment" were unable to: - not perform deliberate actions to confuse others; - comply with consensus...
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...end of a hand-held transceiver.6 Patrol two to center, the voice repeats. Come in. I’m here, on the spot…Moulay Youssef, Boulevard Moulay Youssef. Come in. No one answers him. After...
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31
...attack, different strategies and routes of combat available to cinema. Each monthly screening will focus on one section of the book. On Thursday, we’ll be looking at films from the...
Sunday Reading
...Effects of Global Capitalism: Prison Rape and the Government Twilight of the Lecture "Downton Abbey" anachronisms: beyond nitpickery Things Come Together: A Journey through Literary Lagos Can They Do That?...
The Deep Resentment of Having to Think About It: Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
...appears to be a perennial feature of them. Generations of women novelists—Virginia Woolf comes most immediately to mind—have also documented the other side of such arrangements: the constant efforts women...
Salvage, Without the Punk
...of new essays on empire and image I'll be posting here in coming days and weeks.] “but are we not all wreckers contriving that some treasure may be washed up...
Blood platinum is not a solid but a gas
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-jdMbe6e3g 34 dead and 78 wounded. From clouds of toxic gas Tear gas, likely not the British-designed CR gas (dibenzoxazepine) with nerve agent used during apartheid...
African Poetry: Nyachiro Lydia Kasese
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Nyachiro Lydia Kasese’s Paper Dolls is filled with scenes of smoking, which are also scenes of gendering, degendering, and engendering. These scenes are...
The Anti-Family
...encouraging a two-parent model. They make any other option out of the question. Send your thoughts to [email protected] Teen Mom does not go into these developments—they are outside the scope...