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A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
Women Cuddling Animals
...LSD, injecting himself and his dolphins with the drug, sometimes at the same time. The purpose of Lilly’s Saint Thomas compound was to teach dolphins to speak in English. By...
My Father’s Sign
...like our uncle Aki, who he met on air. Aki came to visit a number of times; he even tried—and failed—to teach me how to hold chopsticks properly. (I still...
Staff at Wits University Threatened
...Wits University in Johannesburg: a threat which sets a worrying trend for times to come for all of us who teach at universities. The backdrop is the militarisation of our...
American History
...entertainment. The sense of “capturing” something on film is not far off here; wielding the technology of film, many Westerners from Edison to James Cameron have tried to contain anxieties...
The master-smartphone dialectic
...on Thursdays, can really show the iPhone who is boss. That will teach that dastardly iPhone not to be uppity. The beauty of the smartphone from the management point of...
Sunday Reading
...schoolrooms, they became a tool for teachers to control the movement of children, whose healthy tendency toward activity made them difficult to teach." "The MOOC is a dialectic. It invites...
Dissatisfaction City
...could one avoid noticing the social forces acting upon it, the power and extortion compelling it to undulate and pose in rhythm to the music? But then one of my...
Sunday Reading
...view of Charlie Hebdo from the French Left Integration and discrimination in France Suburban poverty, pedestrians, and which lives matter On Black Canadian Thought Who will teach at free community...
Sunday Reading
...Failure n+1 Occupy Gazette Issue 4 Invisible Borders that Define American Culture Leave Your Cellphone at Home Music, Modernism, and the Twilight of the Elites The Rise of the Wonky...
Five Questions with Christopher Rey Pérez
...share with each other that work toward a better reality but it’s sustaining them over time and across geographies that makes self-realization difficult. In Palestine, I used to teach a...
Feinting Spells
...at the world’s rebirth; Like the yeast white flour needs; For who would teach rhythm to a dead world of cannons and machines? Who would give the shout of joy...
Unfit for Consumption
...used to viewing women in their underwear as complete human beings. Thinx ads, 2015 The Thinx ads disrupt this view of scantily clad women by emphasizing the visceral rather than...
Sex Appeal, Beauty, and Normalcy: Rachel Hills' "The Sex Myth"
...confident in their appeal. Meanwhile, the actual route to confidence about one’s sex appeal—having positive early sexual experiences—remains unconsidered in the culture at large, almost shooed aside in favor of...
Buying the Future
...contract to purchase cattle in June 2015 and compare it with the August contract. If the price difference is too great—if they are cheap in June and pricey in August—they...
Cross-Border Operations
...labour). European governments have repeatedly tried to introduce a version of Australia’s system of “offshore” detention camps, initially in Libya and now with efforts to strike a “third country” agreement...