Sunday Reading
...revival of Tatar traditions in Poland A Jewish community in Uganda Buddhists in Egypt Arabic calligraphy in Japan Ramayan 3392 AD Zen & the art of eating the (Mysore) Masala...
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...
Aux Armes (or Not)
...hand in hand. When Gainsbourg died in 1991, President François Mitterrand spoke at his funeral, comparing him to Apollinaire and Baudelaire and lauding him for elevating music to an art...
Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons
Surplus Rebellions
...72. Translated by Eleanor Kaufman in “The Desire Called Mao: Badiou and the Legacy of Libidinal Economy,” Postmodern Culture 18: 1, September 2007.[/l] Of the many proponents of this view,...
Full Brightness
...Brain Songs (the work of the Cabinet de Fumisterie Appliquée) is much better. Still, it sounds as if it could be music off a different prompt—“colors,” say, or “the singularity.”...
Sunday Reading
...irreproducible result? Deep state feudalism, and it's only getting worse. Split the payment system utility from banks' gambling. ReclaimUC: Real placement rates for Ph.D. programs in German, 2007-2013 "[W]hat parents...
The Irrelevant and the Contemporary
...“to surprise, challenge, and even disrupt our expectations for how art can shape our experiences.” POST-INTERNET If conceptualism tried to erase the need for an author, much of post-internet...
“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.
Power Loss
...knock the entire continent off the grid, and the lights would not come on again. Cue high-stress action music: Computer screens would go dark. Cell phones would go dead. Any...
Kenya’s Three Tribes
...it can make songs, attract sacrifice and so exclusive it drives into hiding the complex and skeptical ideas that would serve it best?" -- Eavan Boland Moi. Is. Going. There...
Teaching While Black
...19th century British fiction, Romantic literature and culture, and theory) accessible without diluting it. Mostly I do this by poking fun of the writers on our syllabus. Shelley’s “I fall...
Sunday Reading
...he was floating thousands of feet above them.” White History Month ReclaimUC: Campus rape and the rise of the academic industrial complex Rape culture at the University of Ottawa Mount...
The Things We Do
...best friend when they did not fight – and she was envious, awed. Then she tried it on Grandmother, and everyone knew Grandmother did waste words on empty compliments. She...
The Road to Garissa
...must teach thoughtful Kenyans and others that the largest number of victims of al-Shabab are not Kenyans, Ugandans, or others, but Somalis in Somalia. Al-shabab has imposed an incredible tyranny...
Erasing Black AIDS Histories
...light that the writer and activist Kenyon Farrow was asked to consult on the exhibition years ago. He had suggested the curators look into House and Ball culture, the work...