Militain Us
...college campuses, NASCAR races, state fairs, amusement parks, music festivals, and retailers, causing controversy in 2007 when a line of True Heroes action figures was released at Toys “R” Us....
This Week in Art Crime
...This past spring, Miami street artist David Anasagasti’s work started popping up in Japan and South America. It was the type of global exposure that Anasagasti didn’t want:...
Jacqueline Madrano, Retired Homemaker and Volunteer, San Antonio
...Japan, not long after the war had ended, and the first time in Germany, there was military policy about how we could dress. If we went bowling, for instance, we...
Solving Desire
...from this representation? More troublingly, financial stakeholders have tried to advance these questionable treatments on the grounds that they are “feminist.” For instance, a “patient advocacy” campaign funded by Sprout...
Call Me Elena
...have to appear produces a space of absolute creative freedom. It’s a corner of my own that I intend to defend, now that I’ve tried it. If I were deprived...
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, October 26, 2014
...Follow the robot's lead follow the robot's lead you will make beautiful light music it will be beautiful it is not the total disappearance of the human from...
Sunday Reading
...Losing Music “There are family trees, and there are trees from hell that are filled with snakes.” Un-bearing You Can Delete, But You Can’t Forget “Because I’m not coming back...
Sunday Reading
...Haiti's continued disaster of internal displacement Repurposing flying robot killing machines, because roads are too difficult Forced Entry The 22-year-old American woman who wrote gender equality into Japan's constitution Meet...
Sunday Reading
...The story of Masaaki Suzuki's Bach cantata cycle The experience of Filipina migrants in Japan Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds The history of Lebanon's Armenian community...
Chaos Will Set You Free
Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a novel that embraces its own instability to narrate the palimpsests of violence that bind the U.S. and the Philippines
Sci-Fi Crime Drama With A Strong Black Lead
...look like stereotyped representation of their traits as defined by a particular software system, and that that stereotype will align with the biases of the local culture in which it...
Sunday Reading
...of Cambodia’s largely young, female and rural factory workforce by registering a kind of bodily objection to the harsh daily regimen of industrial capitalism” No One Is Hrant Dink ReclaimUC:...
Sunday Reading
...with Fernand Braudel The Professional Worldview of the Effendi Historian Primo Levi and The Canto of Ulysses ReclaimUC: What really happens in those UC regents' meetings? Sports over education at...
Sunday Reading
...Kunkel; Charles Pierce; Doug Henwood. Defined contribution health care. Drones on autopilot. ReclaimUC If you read any article this week, make it this one: Andrew Ross on Universities and...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: At the prospect of the document dump, not the goat. UC Berkeley student government passes divestment bill California's terrible MOOC bill has been amended—and it still means...
The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
...punch with one too many zithering climbs, the music just tosses forth crescendo after crescendo in unceasing sequence, as an ocean breeds waves or as a city pukes condos on...