World Melodrama: Opfergang, 1944
...and workers collide in a way that is graphically emblematic of the divided nation France became under Nazi occupation. Lumière d'été also heats up the sexual musical chairs of Renoir’s...
A Pueblo, a World
What from outside seems an extraordinary feat of organization is nothing more than the everyday forms of collective life
The Luck of the Listserve
...in Prospect Park, "eating pie, singing little mermaid songs, and meeting new people." "We should do that again," he says. It's not always picnics and mermaid songs, and not everyone's...
California Mixtape
...It’s the best word Joni Mitchell ever sung. There are about a hundred recorded songs with the same title but her “California”, from 1971’s Blue, does more for...
Sunday Reading
...reunification" and German national identity From ReclaimUC: Night falls, power rises in Montreal Inside the FBI entrapment strategy Selling out public schools Watch the New York Times write an entire...
Sunday Reading
...impact on how its inhabitants use it" Why you shouldn't call Delhi our 'rape capital' Rape and Death ReclaimUC: Sharp critique of incoming UC Berkeley chancellor by former colleagues at...
Who's That Girl?
...are we expected to connect to someone by way of bangs, kooky songs, and an overplayedDirty Dancing DVD? Showing a version of Jess that is anything other than awkwardly cute...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.16.12
...where did those voices come from? Some of them are personal history, like the caustically dismissive 7th grade science teacher who advised me to become a waitress. Some of them...
Sunday Reading
...on Paris Attacks In Catastrophic Times "Fuck off, Google" Dialed Up Unfollow Hostages ReclaimUC: Letter of solidarity from SFSU's ethnic studies graduate program The Mizzou blueprint: how to fight for...
Sunday Reading
...race in America Q&A with the winners of Islamicate Short Story Contest Eimear McBride: ‘Writing is painful – but it’s the closest you can get to joy’ ReclaimUC: Israel and...
Sunday Reading
...A Very Still Life ReclaimUC: Mapping student debt "[M]uch of the meal plan cost does not go for an individual’s food. Colleges use the money to shore up their balance...
Sunday Reading
...of Steven Salaita Queer Black Studies Now Big Data and the‘Physics’ of Social Harmony ReclaimUC: Video: tear gas attack at UC Berkeley (1969) The hunger crisis in America's universities L.A....
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: "Picture yourself as a stereotypical male" Teaching slavery to reluctant listeners The Prison University Project How Salaita was fired The University of California's perma-temp problem University of...
Sunday Reading
...Ask a NASA Scientist, Dr. David Morrison, about the apocalypse. Is Brooklyn Better? Has Manhattan Gotten Worse? Revisiting NY Mag’s “I Hate Brooklyn” Article Seven Years Later. ReclaimUC: UC: The...
Sunday Reading
...Arabic maqams and Persian dastgahs Indian rock bands of the 1960s T.E. Lawrence's visit to Kerala ReclaimUC: The UC Berkeley scientist who took on a leading herbicide manufacturer The grad...
The Virtual Watchers
...including a bar in Australia that kept a 24-hour feed for its customers. However, the most astonishing discovery was a Facebook group that gathered some of the volunteering citizens that...