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”
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...
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...
Whose Time Is It, Anyway?
The uneven temporalities that structure global capitalism require martyrdom from its least valued commuters
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...
The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education
What happens to higher education when universities can no longer hike tuition?
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...
Dixie Be Damned, But Damn Everything Too
An Interview with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley.
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...
It Ought to Be Called Vice Cream
...good measure fragments of reptile brain were added, along with an eyeball or two. In Japan the 4th century emperor Nintoku was so taken with ice and its ability to...
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...
Sunday Reading
...suspensions really become rarer? Tech transfer and the privatization of the public university British universities turn to capital markets Towards a new community of scholars Culture of misogyny in Isla...
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
...and look stupid: the ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr every conversation ever about sexual harassment watching male team sports while female Sia Fiegel's songs of the fat brown woman the healthy...
Once Upon a Dream
...songs, the sardonic, aggressive edge to her impressionistic lyrics is sharper, and there’s something like anger in her relentless sexy posturing. The press emphasized that Jolie herself—megastar, businesswoman, Special Envoy...
The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.