Cartooning the Body
...a child’s supposedly passive consumption of whatever content is aimed at them, cartoons trace a political horizon defined by the profound absence of alternative possibilities. Within the globalized consumer culture,...
The Bitter Women of Japanese Noir
...a foothold in the telling of darker psychological narratives. Kirino, hailed in the States as the quintessential author of Japanese feminist noir, has struck a chord in Japan, and what...
Sunday Reading
...Academic Job Market CUNY Declares War on Rebel Faculty Painkiller Post What Happened to Shulamith Firestone Telegraph Avenue http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/how-coal-brought-us-democracy-and-oil-ended-it-lessons-from-the-new-book-carbon-democracy.html http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/romney-will-solve-crisis-exact-same-gop-plan-2008-2006-2004 Debt Resistors' Operations Manual The Worst Teacher in Chicago No,...
Sunday Reading
...with Mariame Kaba ReclaimUC: "UCI Administration focused on protecting the University’s public image over the safety of its students." 5 ways fraternities are wielding major influence over university administrations The...
Sunday Reading
...Asia? ReclaimUC: Who's the boss? Complicating the critique of university administration No class today, no ruling class tomorrow: Lessons from the 1970 US student strike Disobedience and miseducation: Occupy and...
Sunday Reading
...fact that one of the agents was named Bloom filled me with foreboding.” ReclaimUC : UC Berkeley scrambling to cover stadium bill . . . and interest payments Berkeley and...
The Wintourian Candidate
...dancer he had been, at one time, well-acquainted with. He told about how, through her, he went to Japan in the early ’80s and met Comme des Garçons designer Rei...
World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili
A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
...violation into something musical, something poetic. But that struggle comes to the fore in these poems, in a way that the pain and grief and loss itself does not always...
The Sabotage of Time
...Bermejo River; Chaplin vs. Keaton; supply chains; Ballard; cunning and speed. Relevant links are here (reserve a free ticket at the first one if you're coming): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-manual-override-lecture-2-the-sabotage-of-time-tickets-10660867943 https://www.facebook.com/events/1425151034395572/ http://ctm.parsons.edu/manual-override-the-sabotage-of-capital/...
Clear Satire
...satire isn’t is: a genre. Novels, tragedies, sonnets, horror movies, musical theater, and so on are all genres which you can identify as such by pointing to a fairly limited...
Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations
...fabricated in accordance with the dual logic of exchange and use value” - yet which in fact makes that world far more dangerous and intolerable. It should be commensurate to...
The Uses of Orphans
...people who, so to speak, take us in. This expectation is embedded in institutional rhetoric and policy. We’re expected to diversify communities, once we’ve assimilated; to educate others about cultures...
Sunday Reading
...to feel, to be. The delicate matter of the shameez. Please Don't Have Sex With Robots If colonialism was the apocalypse, what comes next? Fragility ReclaimUC: U.S. education reform and...
Sunday Reading
...to a woman than pretend she exists" Snapchats From My Mom; No Results; UpGoer Your Ph.D. ReclaimUC: Yudof is stepping down! Addressing the austerity lock-in at public universities UC online,...
Reacting to Reactions
...believe that the News Feed inspires us with a series of real feelings, when in fact we are suspending whatever complicated feelings we might have for the relief of just...