Sunday Reading
...that teaches us quite a bit about organizing academic workplaces, organizing democratically, women in the labor movement, and organizing for respect, not just wages. Chris Hayes on undecided voters in...
Rootless and Ruthless
...and shopping matter so little to a global elite determined to grind every last bit of profit out of ordinary people before the next big crash. It’s all right, though,...
Spectrum Order
...the individual — the reader — as the subject in need of care. The loss-of-innocence plot, like the Bildungsroman, is a technology of socialization. Its effect is a coming-to-terms with...
#stopcreating
...still gets regularly scandalized by age-old bouts of fraudulence, plagiarism, and hoaxes in ways that would make, say, the art, music, computing, or science worlds chuckle with disbelief. It’s hard...
The Ellipsis That Told the Tale
Until 1969, there were several attacks on the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno during the student riots in Germany. This story takes place 30 years later, when the roots and conflicts that fueled the incidents are still being felt in a daughter who is reassembling fact and fiction dating back to 250 AD in an attempt
What Would a Busy Blogger Do?
...The time has come, the blogger said, to talk of many things—actually, just one, which is a need for a bit of time off. Specifically, time off without feeling...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 1)
...comfort reinforced status and class cohesion. Elite men of the most powerful poleis gathered on fragrant evenings in rooms especially designed for feasting. These rooms accommodated no more than eleven...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...is only being. A tree, for instance, is merely a bit of undifferentiated matter when it is unnamed. Strictly speaking, it is inaccurate to say “tree” or even “undifferentiated matter”...
War Comes Home for Dinner
...greens that can sit around without going bad both reduce food waste and the frequency of shopping trips. But unbridled efficiency comes with its own mix of risks and sacrifices....
Beauty Blogosphere 12.7.12
...with the Richard Cohen/James Bond "sexual meritocracy" bit, are we? Good. Then allow me to point you toward Ta-Nehisi Coates's piece on "democracy and the inalienable right to hit that."...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Core Values
..., a pale yellow-skinned apple splashed and striped with two shades of red, and the Cabbage-Head, a vigorous grower and good bearer whose flesh, though a bit coarse, was juicy,...
♫ Roxane ♫
...attorney or the magical negro—roles relegated to the background and completely lacking in authenticity, depth, or complexity.” Viola Davis calls these roles, “the fried-chicken special of the day” that “hold...
Arguing the Web (3): Post-Text
...passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.” Gibson’s wording is a bit extreme. What...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...will not move no friends not one bit A dissolve makes clear that many hours have passed, twilight has fallen. In that time passed they must have come to an...
I’m So Into Avoiding You
An email exchange between Grace Lavery and Charlie Markbreiter