We Mock What We Don't Understand
...pick up what you can along the way through life without anyone specifically trying to teach you anything useful. The action of Spies Like Us hinges on this theme. Fitz-Hume...
All The Hungry Children
...to quibble over such details? If these songs were an invitation to compassion, the surprise was that this invitation was made in the most abstract of idioms. If we were...
Il Salvataggio Selvaggio
...is, he deviated from the correct line: He tried to be human at a time when such was ill-advised. The charts were right, and it was just bad behavior that...
Robots on an Escalator
...I noticed that with was inside the quotation marks as well. Never mind others' abandoning you; don't abandon yourself. I tried to delete my Twitter feed recently, but soon discovered...
Licensed to Ill
...feed a flu and starve a cold, the saying goes. I've never been one to insist on such distinctions. When I get sick, I feed. Nothing makes my appetite go...
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
...Darfur. It is a place without history and without politics; simply a site where perpetrators clearly identifiable as ‘Arabs’ confront victims clearly identifiable as ‘Africans’. 6. Teju Cole’s twitter feed,...
Sunday Reading
...Slayer ReclaimUC: Fuck the kettles. We will boil our own water. Neoliberal Berkeley How college reproduces inequality Corporate open source and MOOCs Grad students' wives as a gendered labor category...
Sunday Reading
...kids who do everything wrong ReclaimUC: There are enough homeless schoolkids in San Francisco to fill 70 classrooms Two decades of "paper classes" Class shock: affect, mobility, and the adjunct...
Sunday Reading
...Manning: how keeping himself sane was taken as proof of madness Hey, Bartender: Dissertation Actualities and Atrocity Stories The Invisible Occupation Chinua Achebe At 82: “We Remember Differently” ReclaimUC: UC...
Gold Star, Brown Family
...the invasion into Iraq that killed this fallen Captain, whose parents she used as pawns. A war like this has done a lot to feed the same fear that bigots...
Death by Immortality
...attached to fertile gardens that will create and feed communities. How can I not mourn such a loss? It feels silly and self-indulgent to claim that my metaphors have been...
Sunday Reading
...terrorists” ReclaimUC: Why solidarity is important, or, an open letter to UC faculty SFPD kill City College scholarship student after gentrifiers get suspicious As Maine goes, so goes the nation:...
Sunday Reading
...before Disgrace: A Dutchman Commissions Two Golconda Miniatures on Eve of Mughal Conquest Tibetan Libraries in Present-Day China The history of sawt al-khaleej Foucault in Iran ReclaimUC: Securitization, risk management,...
Sunday Reading
...(as Susie Cagle said: good on sports, bad on local politics. Pay attention: this will be on the test.) ReclaimUC: Problems always come from outside On grad school and "love"...
The Ahmeds in America, Part Three
...was on American culture - we needed to be coached in this topic in order to successfully teach American students, and integrate into our new surroundings. “The first thing that...
Stories of Our Lives: Memories
...of the household? Why are women not getting married? Why are couples divorcing? One cannot escape the unrelenting heteronormativity of Kenya. Heteronormativity, as Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner teach us,...