Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 2
...In the back of my mind, I keep thinking about the things I've personally committed my life to, the choice I've made to pursue research, scholarship, and teaching on and...
#mybodymyhome (i)
...dismissed as “minor,” “trivial,” “irrelevant.” Hon. Duale’s colleague, Hon. Mulu, argued, “in the Kamba culture, there is nothing like sexual harassment when you are dealing with a wife or husband....
Labor Pains
...for surrogates to withdraw labor, to suspend production is to kill. The life-or-death entanglements of conception, birth, and kinship are thus a partially unenclosed commons, a source of joy yet...
Living is Easy
...When it comes to summer entertainment, movies are shouting about nothing into empty theatres. Then they kill everyone Summer movies promise us many things, but mostly they promise recognizable...
Walter White Supremacy
...skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there's no competing with the only white guy in the room. These plots expect viewers to cheer while...
The Paradox of Progress
...called progress. Displayed alongside colonized and conquered peoples W.J.T. Mitchell gives a great overview about the multiple connections between dinosaur culture at the American frontier in The Last Dinosaur Book,...
All Eyez on Not-Me
...Kill, and Nirvana. It’s surprising that such a notoriously skeptical generation seems to have embraced (or at least not dismissed outright) Holopac. As a culture we are seemingly obsessed with...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
...we have to create a world that won’t kill us, and avoid the ones that will. After all, The Apprentice was great reality TV until it became reality. ...
personal crusade against alzheimer’s
...douglas huebler, duration piece #31, boston, 1974: one silly concept (kill them all), roughly shooting time. although the huebler piece --and onofre's evenly-- doesn't immerse me into nostalgia, powerlessness, is...
No Dignity, No Doubt
...Before the killing begins, they go on the radio to call you a cockroach, they come with the clippers to shave your hair, they parade you on the streets to...
Do yoga and vote
...it to become coal and vote Kill time and vote Lock the doors of a Bikram studio from the outside and giggle and vote Strip time's carcass for parts and...
Craven Family Values
...concerns. Artists who abide by them with some degree of competency and visibility will eventually bring about some critical valuation of the works they have produced. Follow the rule about...
Sunday Reading
...stole the education from its black children "Even if the police don’t kill me, a lifetime of preparing for them to just might." Kitabet: Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry...
Testing
...them. As a high school cheater, Lauren O’Neal recounts, sharing answers felt like solidarity. Cheating provided a precious moment of support — which was manifestly absent from teachers who imposed...
Life: Why Bother?
...want to purposely kill all those zygotes, infants and/or pre-adolescents to swell heaven’s ranks? A more palatable solution might be for hell-believers to accept the logic of the sectarian repugnant...