Sunday Reading
...Kevin Carey's #EndOfCollege And Reasons to Pause ReclaimUC: The unmanageable university "We have exhausted all 'respectable' avenues, and they have not served us." In and out of compromise: in search...
White Feminism and Eugenics: The Case of Gertrude Davenport
...scientific and popular audiences, manage a research station, and teach new generations of scientists and fieldworkers about eugenics. But at the same time, her enthusiasm for simplifying human heredity made...
Violent Motion, 1
...align it with a certain tendency in screen culture that came to dominate economically. That tendency, beginning in the first decades of the twentieth century, is for commercially-produced moving images...
Where is the Line Between Us?
...of their county, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics. I proudly offer this...
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...or even uncannily predicting certain developments in mass culture, therefore confirming its assessment of its own present and trendlines. Prescient how? A sketch of the rest of the show’s narrative...
The Great Leap Forward
...on the cultural landscape, it indiscriminately sucks into its vortex the signs, icons, and golden calves of both high and low culture, strips them of original contexts to repurpose and...
Strike Force
...commissary… It is nothing new that prisoners have organized and tried to change things from within. What’s new is that now we are building a solid network of people outside...
Lockdown
...slander and the threats of politicians to a programmed killing of Muslims in Delhi with the complicity of the police – the government failed to kill the “contagious” spirit of...
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...et al were always just gentrified fandom. This shifts into a an analysis of how digital culture facilitates to IRL-gentrification, as exemplified by neighborhoods like Williamsburg. “NYC has lost the...
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Sunday Reading
...the French discovered Angkor The real roots of violence in Jerusalem ReclaimUC: Academia is killing my friends Vote no on every fee How austerity killed the humanities Why technology will...
Party Like It’s 1992
Early colonization and current gentrification are linked by their use of cages to gain land and exert zero-sum autonomy over those with darker skin
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Sunday Reading
...stuff Subashini Navaratnam on Les Mis, Red Lights, and white Oscars culture bait A tribute to last week's episode of Girls ReclaimUC: Management's backup plans (update on the state of...
The Mask of Zelda: Dark Eternities
It was just an ordinary day in the world of Legend of Zelda. Then everything went topsy-turvy. Content Warning: Violence of every kind.
Five Questions with CAConrad
...music. I place a piece of fruit on the floor with my laptop to play one track from Victoire’s CATHEDRAL CITY CD. I cover the fruit and laptop with a...