Letters of Recommendation: C. Wright Mills to Fidel Castro
...to get some young professors for him, to teach there and possibly to work with INRA. I have now found one such man and wish to recommend him as strongly...
Sunday Reading
...or congenitally disabled subjects. ReclaimUC: Academic labour and the capitalist university Washington state legislature passes budget *cutting* tuition at public universities "I am, in very real ways, a primary source,...
No Man Righteous
...emptiness that derives from a culture that sends perennial mixed messages about “doing your own thing” and “being cool.” These slangy phrases vulgarize the ideal of self-realization, which consumerism reduces...
Sunday Reading!
...Shut Up, Jonathan Franzen The Tuareg Uprising in Northern Mali 1789, 1979, and all that… How to Date a Wall Street Man (Continued) Why Foreign Bestsellers Often Fail in Japan....
Chinua Achebe, No Longer At Ease
...being killed by what Nigeria had become. He would spend the rest of his life in the United States, where he would teach at Bard College, and then Brown; he...
Sunday Reading
...art from India “Practice resurrection.” ReclaimUC: The family that primitive accumulates together, stays together. Will UC Berkeley occupiers get justice? The impact of budget cuts on California's community colleges A...
Whirlpool of the Masses
The biopolitical response to COVID extends the reactionary orientalism that characterized the 1865 cholera outbreak in Mecca
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
...identity with or without the consent of the subject. However, the culturally embedded beliefs about women’s roles affect both situations; in Western culture a woman seeking professional power must demonstrate...
Rapture, Rainbows and Reproduction
...his own delirious repsonse to a double rainbow captures a culture-wide sense of joy at being able to experience miraculous nature and capture it too, master it, make it seemingly...
The Deep Resentment of Having to Think About It: Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
...more bitter and contested this expulsion can be made to be, the more effectively he plays his role as culture warrior. In fact, because it's the function of a right...
Little Yellow Boy Giant, Terrorist
...shape or foster artistic breakthroughs. The accusation that the city is risk-averse and WASP-y descends from an 'age-old attitude central to the very culture of Boston itself: a city where...
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31
...title. Vogel died in April of 2012, but his contributions to film criticism and New York film culture live on. His film club, Cinema 16, which ran in the sixties,...
We Were Promised Hot Tubs
...and that being grown up is one compromise, one sellout, one dreary responsibility after another. In fact, it's hard to think of anything in contemporary culture that celebrates adulthood today...
Lonely Highways in the Land of Jail
...show inspired Crystal Gayle to record “Midnight in the Desert,” which ended up in heavy rotation on the show as bumper music: Midnight in the desert and we’re listenin’ to...
Sunday Reading
...Being-in-the-world Miguel James, Against the Police ReclaimUC: The college trap that keeps people poor Why is my curriculum white? Color-blind racism in the push to repeal affirmative action in higher...
Sunday Reading
...Innocent Man? Delusions of the Democrats The Limits of Alternative Africas Why I Left United Airlines Chinese characters and eyesight ReclaimUC: "Predictable" The University of California's failed funding model "The...