The Contagious Assembly
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
This Week in Art Crime
...and the reporters, with their notepads and video cameras at the ready, tried to get a more linear response, the resulting give-and-take was a piece of performance art in itself....
Healing History
...Bad Statistics on Women in Medicine (The Wall Street Journal) Women’s Participation in the Medical Profession: Insights from Experiences in Japan, Scandinavia, Russia, and Eastern Europe (Journal of Women’s Health,...
Psychic Refuge
..."translate" cultural difference; for example, in some cultures people may not identify individualized emotions but identify them as part of collective, family or social feelings, which are not compatible with...
The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education
What happens to higher education when universities can no longer hike tuition?
Forget Me Not
...rush to commission a memorial for Sean Collier, the police officer who had been killed on the MIT campus in the multi-day chase following the Boston Marathon bombing. But myriad...
Whose Time Is It, Anyway?
The uneven temporalities that structure global capitalism require martyrdom from its least valued commuters
Sunday Reading
...by an American company.” Lifecycles and Makerspaces in an “Electronics Graveyard”: Agbogbloshie Dorothea Lange’s Photographs of Japanese-American Interment “When people mourn the decline of Istanbul, they mourn the willful transformation...
America.
...and these were labeled with the names of other places. In this form, in the form of “hilarious memes,” the story was reported in a comical way. Spain was a...
Dixie Be Damned, But Damn Everything Too
An Interview with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley.
Hanford Idyll
...(and to protect Hanford from outside interference) is now itself protected from development and agriculture, part of an edenic landscape imagined into the future. The Reach is presented as an...
black . . . gay
.... gay” formation. Dagmawi Woubshet writes, “Given the persistence of death in black life, black culture is imbued with an anticipatory sense of loss, recalibrating the calendar of mourning to...
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
Beauty Blogosphere 10.5.12
...The timing is particularly iffy, as the products are made in Japan, which is currently sparring with China over an archipelago of islands; strong branding has prevented sagging sales of...
Sunday Reading
...is written in five scripts Tourists Flock to South Korea's 'German Village' A Taste of Algerian Music Out of the Hadhramaut - on the Arab diaspora in South-East Asia Of...
The Daddest Place on Earth
...aesthetic of theme parks is total sensory excess: gaudy overwhelming explosions of color and light, blaring music, screaming children, wafting odors of fried dough, heat, jostling crowds. The choice of...