Revolutionary Laughter
...novel almost every decade. He was friends with Albert Camus, Lawrence Durrell and Jean Genet and, although he wrote almost exclusively about Egypt, was firmly ensconced in Left Bank culture,...
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...
The Selfless Man
...Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) by teaching him the art of the pickup, training him to dress fashionably, drink like an alpha male, and make woman-pleasing small talk. “Be better than...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The Fame Game
...against moderators, other users, my family. So we tried to pre-screen the secrets, where every secret submitted had to be looked at by a moderator before it could be shared,...
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...
This Week in Art Crime
...the man put up quite a fight, injuring two officers while they tried to arrest him, with Detective Inspector Brendon Cullen saying one officer suffered a shoulder injury. (via) •...
Beyond MLK
...been called out by activists repeatedly for his riot-shaming and victim-blaming, yet rather than apologizing, the great patriarch has tried to bad-jacket them as “provocateurs.” But the street kids made...
Interview: Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
...to be who I am. I’m not sure if I’ve ever consciously tried to feel sexy. I’ve experimented a little bit more now that I’ve lost some weight; I’ve experimented...
Circle Circle Dot Dot
...hell? I thought to myself. I tried to laugh it off and went over to another kid. And before I could extend my hand, the same girl interjected— “Don’t touch...