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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Must Fall
Reflections on Must Fall’s paradoxical call, student politics in South Africa, and the role of the university
Old Neighbors, New Battles
Rekindling Indigenous relations against colonial violence
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...
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
...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...
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
It's fine, it's fine, I mean, I didn't want to sleep tonight, any night, ever again, I hate sleeping so this robot is great and I love...
F/W 2015-2016 Lookbook
All images from Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archive, 1796-1925....
Terrifying Robot Update: September 15, 2015
...as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community. The Second International Congress on Love and Sex...