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A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
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...
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...
The Ahmeds in America, Part Two
...cultures where young ones learn and work alongside adults in families and communities, children tend to become responsible and autonomous like adults while adults continue to remain playful like children....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pushing Pixels
...they advanced and tried to commensurate different visions of the Martian surface. Some team members even developed an embodied sense of the rover’s experience on Mars, imaginatively reconstructing how it...
The Enemy of All Mankind
...sublimity of seeing more of everything prevents any interrogation of how we see everything--of how, when, and for what ends we have tried to carve up the world. ...
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...