Jul, One Year Later
...a musical track in remembrance of Juliano featuring his students. It is a moving tribute, and frankly, it proves difficult viewing as his coffin is carried atop waves of friends,...
African Poetry: Introduction
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
Have you read Stendhal?
...same time, be the current. State 2. Feeling and acting like a thing. Audio excerpt from conversation with Jimmy Brodkey, Tape 11, May 2010 [audio:http://www.stereohell.com/audio/brodkey.mp3|titles=A conversation with Jimmy Brodkey] Conversations...
Inside Out, Namwali Serpell's "The Sack"
...story’s narrative completion, it un-resolves itself, taking you back to the beginning… only now, you’re inside out, upside down, looking out from looking in. If you turn a sack inside...
Courage, Please
...Robert Ashley died today. In memory of one who believed that the "technique of profound collaboration is essential." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza2GCF74lo ...
The Anti-Family
...encouraging a two-parent model. They make any other option out of the question. Send your thoughts to [email protected] Teen Mom does not go into these developments—they are outside the scope...
Sunday Reading
...the Bugs FFS get Gamergate out of my mentions Notes on Cho-Am: The Myth of Closure Notes on Military-Industrial Complex: Finger on the Button Metagames: Playing at Good and Evil...
As crazy, as crazy, as crazy as I am /
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZBLAovd28 / nothing can parallel the very non-parallel fact of those pants and that floor...
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
...respond with vitriolic jeers as the police struggle to prevent a riot.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGH5IyKQn98 Elsewhere: Rashad Shabazz, 'Black Militancy: Notes From the Underground' For a generation of young activists, the...
Do You Speak State?
...the Queen and other British authorities have often received replies (all catalogued on www.forvik.com). However, these replies generally involve his questions being forwarded to another office, as civil service bureaucrats...
—“but was it a peaceful protest?”
? ? ? Jabr abu Jordan, "Crossing Lines: Capoeira, Movement, Activism," June 2014 I was looking at a picture of Hamoudeh—Mohammad Azzehs’ nickname—being carried to a waiting...
Silten wares
The assembly line / It coughed And Thick was / The resultant silt It huffed / The silt thick And The trucks / Stunting like...
African Poetry: D.M. Aderibigbe
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Day One 1. Now that I have no other place to go, I’ll go into my grandmother’s fingers, wrap myself with her blanket,...
The Sabotage of Life (Sabotage Talk #4): 5/14
...could support one so unlivable. Topics include: birth strikes, Neo-Malthusian and otherwise; animation; hostile objects; material feminist urban design; slapstick; unwaged time. (Seating is limited, please register on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-the-sabotage-of-space-manual-override-lecture-4-tickets-11588885669?aff=efbevent...
The Literary Community Presents: LET'S MAKE A MOVIE!
...Kickstarter party for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus Learn more and RSVP on Facebook Sliding scale. $20 donation recommended but pay what you can: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706884381/happy-baby-the-movie/posts/354932...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
...doesn’t drive some black Ford with a two-way radio.' —Joan Didion, 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' From Slouching Towards Bethlehem, p. 116. The occurrence of appearance should come as no surprise. Fashion...