cartography's nausea
...It is well known that the atlas made in Japan and the atlases made abroad, let’s say in London, have different compositions. That is, Japan is placed at...
Life During Wartime
Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War
Feminist Anthropology Part II
...understandings of human culture, anthropologists have avoided imposing ethical standards on ethnographic communities. Notions of morality are not universal and often depend upon the religious, social, and cultural milieu of...
Sunday Reading
...campaigns teach China's new ghost city-dwellers how to behave ReclaimUC: The state funding sleight-of-hand Unionizing solidarity with Palestine Ask not what your country can do for you but what Coursera...
Sunday Reading
...to SUCCESS that a single punk rocker in Pittsburgh could teach a CEO (This dude was responsible for my first forays into anti-capitalism) Spring Breakers and Anti-human Communism ReclaimUC: On...
Sunday Reading
...The strange death of Yasser Arafat David Bromwich on Barack Obama ReclaimUC: Probably, if I was them, I'd have thought: yeah, I'd do it again, and probably get away with...
Love Worth Fighting For
...the face of these omnipresent siren songs of convenience, we must try to cling to a different and opposed conception of what love might be. Later in the New Left...
African Poetry: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Dagoretti Corner begins as “the dust that has no place” and ends with “a glimmer train / of bioluminescence.” The restless land meets...
Sunday Reading
...Malayalam to be given the status of a classical language The photography of Newsha Tavakolian ReclaimUC This week's must read on higher ed: on university endowments, financial managers, and failing...
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...province of Kobani shares with Turkey.” The Most Pointless Ferry in Maryland Theology of Ferguson ReclaimUC: "UC Ventures is off to Vegas to play the slots" Carceral educations A specter...
Sunday Reading
...Of Cholera 'A Censor Is Sitting Inside Me Now' Clothes and Daggers / Racism, Pure and Simple ReclaimUC: The NLRB Columbia decision and the future of academic labor struggles After...
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...they feel on the body" ReclaimUC Must-read piece on Fisher v. Texas: How diversity came to replace anti-racism. Also interesting, At the Supreme Court, a timid defense of affirmative action....
African Poetry: Chielezona Eze
...images (photographs) and by the bodies that lived it (the poet’s body). The book also meditates on aging. And one section gestures toward how suffering might teach us to extend...
Dicks Mixtape
...city. The best mixes are childish and hopeful. Runways, runaways. They’ll reach for you in the middle of the night. Bernadette Mayer writes “So what who cares songs of one...
Sunday Reading
...in show of protest Diamonds Are Bullshit ReclaimUC: The skills gap is bullshit, Wisconsin edition Financialization killed Sweet Briar The school-to-deportation pipeline "We knew that increased police presence [at the...
Sunday Reading
...a Hundred Years The Unbearable Wrongness of Koushal vs Naz Readings for the 7th Anniversary of the al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing ReclaimUC: "Cops off every campus, and out of every neighbourhood!"...