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
...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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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
...(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"...
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,...