It has always been profound to me that the brass ring is a brass ring.
...come to be seen as both the precursor and hallmark of success. And so also the object of imitation. Hence our present culture of imitation. In this culture a successful...
Very Serious Populists
...(some of whom are moderators) may not see an article dissecting rape culture as something that “contributes to the conversation” of r/comedy. The voting system is left as the proving...
Life During Wartime
Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sunday Reading
...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
...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...
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...
Sunday Reading
...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...