Sunday Reading
...and Arendt's. Spirited Away, 10 years later. ReclaimUC UC/CSU: No criminal charges for the UC Davis pepper-spray cop, but the UC regents approved a settlement with the students who were...
RUPTURES: Between the City and the Art World
...by thisistomorrow on the 12th December and archived on their website: thisistomorrow.info. For more information: [email protected] The full programme will be available on: www.rupturesinplaces.com To book FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruptures-between-the-city-and-the-art-world-tickets-19674357533...
Me Meme
...threat that it will all go on their permanent record? The tension between the archive and the feed puts pressure on “authenticity,” which lingers on as a compass for the...
Sunday Reading
...The Eruv, a Jewish Quantum State Dhirubhai Ambani's time in Aden ReclaimUC: What do 2,358 administrators do at UC? 20% of the country's "best public colleges" (including UC Berkeley) have...
Sunday Reading
...racially discriminatory covenants” Stowaways and Crime Aboard a Scofflaw Ship ReclaimUC: ShotSpotter on campus The pushback against Arizona's ban on Mexican American studies "[S]enior university managers de facto agreed with...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...We’ve tried pretty much everything, and they just ignore us. We’ve talked to state legislators, written petitions, mobilized people on campus. The next step for us is in the tradition...
Must Fall
Reflections on Must Fall’s paradoxical call, student politics in South Africa, and the role of the university
The History of Dialogue: Other People’s Papers
...100 papers for pay. Teach: In my philosophy class of 36 students I had six instances of plagiarism. I ended up turning them all in to the Committee on Academic...
Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World’s Fair
...fair’s Department of Physical Culture, Sullivan had a leading role in the creation of the 1904 Olympics, which were taking place in St. Louis, and was himself a former athlete....
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...culture that—however latent it may be—a dystopian neo-noir still has to presume the off-world adventures of the real future, where Wagon Train can continue in space. And where does Deckard...
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
...via Eastleigh—through bio-medical struggles to “make live,” to prolong health, to “make generations”; because I come to Eastleigh—and Somalis via Eastleigh—through the culture-bridging practices demonstrated by my father’s practice, practices...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The program era and the mainly white room Skin feeling On the side of the powerful The college president-to-adjunct pay ratio U.S. college staffing changes, 1987-2011 When schooling meets...
Old Neighbors, New Battles
Rekindling Indigenous relations against colonial violence
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...In Japan, they were called benshi (??) They remained in the cinema until the ‘30s, until filmed sound shoved them off the stage. Kurosawa’s brother worked as one. When talkies...
Sunday Reading
...cabinet? ReclaimUC: UC Berkeley uses sketchy, unproven funding model to finance $321 million stadium renovation UCLA medical school's unusually close relationship with sketchy pyramid-scheme Herbalife "Of the 320 students enrolled...
True Sailing Is Dead
...as James Dean seems to miss the peculiar appeal that his decidedly unsexy music has for adolescents. Conspicuously lacking in subtlety and seductiveness, Doors albums have more in common with...