Batman Occupied
...the serial killers and terrorists, and they too are becoming stale in their repetition. Jameson, however, is wrong about politics being forbidden in mass culture. The Dark Knight Rises is...
Line Cooked
...hurt myself had always been very encouraging and supportive of my growth as a cook. The kitchen culture there was somewhat unconventional, even slightly democratic. And the whole restaurant staff...
Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You
...Mohaiemen ([email protected]) explores borders, wars, and belonging through essays and film. His essays include “Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic roots of hip-hop” (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture,...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The sanctuary campus movement and local points of resistance A call for sanctuary Beyond sanctuary cities/campuses: stop deportations by any means A map of sanctuary campuses "It is...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: Students at UC Berkeley turn the tables on a racist professor 96 hours of action concludes with successful campus shut down Students seeking to redesignate restrooms as...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: UC's new methodology for determining the cost of education is absurd Can UC answer these 5 big questions about its spending? No confidence in the University of...
The Dating Game: Compliments, Part III
...out: Compliments between romantic partners frequently differ from compliments given to friends. The role and intent of compliments are always contextual, and nothing provides a broader context than culture. Intimate...
This Week in Art Crime
...reach the sign. Police are thought to have identified Urakawa from the video. Abraham earlier told his Facebook followers he was in Japan over the New Year’s holidays. Osaka police...
Sunday Reading
...in Gujarat schools Violence outside Paris synagogue falsely attributed to anti-Semitism How Opposite Energy Policies Turned The Fukushima Disaster Into A Loss For Japan And A Win For Germany This...
Quakes and Ale: Comparing Cultures in Catastrophe
...heartland, St. Louis has a ferociously autochthonous culture; nonnatives risk suffocation. Many St. Louisans never leave the metro area. So insular are they, in fact, that they couldn’t even be...
Cap and Trade
...temperature and rainfall and cracks in the forest and coordination between trees and fungi and supply chains coming out of Japan into Oregon. In the dominant ways of thinking about...
Little Big Eater Girl
...contest,” I say. “It’s for a Japanese TV show called the Big Eaters World Championships, and it’s the final round between Team America and Team Japan.” I know this because...
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
Sunday Reading
...Peer Review in the Age of Adjunctification “The soldiers had just left and my grandmother’s house looked battered and bruised.” Seamus Heaney’s Last Poem ReclaimUC: After the freeze: UC...
Sunday Reading
...Alexandria villa facing demolition The difficulties faced by Pashtun singers ReclaimUC: "[T]he whiter the school, the more diversity depicted in the brochures" Dude, where's the race in your class analysis...
Sunday Reading
...penalized by the child welfare system. ReclaimUC: America's top cop as UC president What does Janet Napolitano's appointment as UC president tell us about the UC? UC President Napolitano and...