Achilles 2.0
...his former comrade-in-arms Tihomir Blaskic, who was tried for war crimes at The Hague: …I thought about what I would have said if they had questioned me, how I would...
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
Communiqué on the Liberation of Hind’s Hall
A film in the catacinema
...the soft clatter of those ghost-rid horse who whipped back and forth across the icy ground and to the noise of how when they tried to stop this mad stampede...
This Week in Art Crime
...I am the guy responsible for the exhibition, that we have brought shame on the Ukraine people. I tried to explain that we show also the killed [Euromaidan] protesters, but...
Survival in Audre Lorde
...In my practice in Poetry I have tried to produce a grammar in which Black existence might be the thought and not the unthought; might be. —Dionne Brand, “An...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...an enormous, prop comedy cordless telephone. And it feels like one, slightly pebbled, integral. But it cannot be looked through. There are no round places to stick your eyes in...
While I Was Away
...a year ago, I tried to return to romance novels written in the 1970s and early 1980s, and I couldn't. They were full of rape. It was a vernacular. I...
Lies and Videotape
...you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works. In both films, the...
Just Friends
...the way creative technological disruption, in the form of social media, has tried to make friendship just another platform for self-fashioning consumption. There could be another side to this antagonism....
The world has been created a few minutes ago
...bridge. we tried on some panties. she’s reading lunar park. i told her it was a big mistake. the beginning is fine but then he starts to see ghosts everywhere....
Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
...at the end of the day, I "talk like a girl," and I see no reason to reconfigure. In fact, when I've tried to reconfigure and not be so damned...
Manet in Tunisia
...student protests against the increasingly authoritative regime of President Habib Bourguiba, who, since independence from France in 1956, tried to create a secular state based on philosophical ideas he learned...
Junk Drawer
...The results themselves are only temporary—they would look different every time—capturing the ebb and flow of our pop culture obsessions. In many ways Odell is just as much an anthropologist...
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
...distort family values.” She writes as if those family values — the same ones that have emerged from patriarchal culture and skewed emotional labor along gender lines — reflect eternal...
Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes
...in . . . He got out of the car, came to where I was and tried to rape me.—We Charge Genocide, UN Shadow Report * For the distinction between...
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 3
...they always? They had a good laugh, a real hearty one. My own chest bloomed, in huge black stellar flowers and all their usual barbs, and I tried to swallow...