Amniotechnics
...life tried liquidly to become. Much has been written on the view of pregnancy, in antiquity, as a dutiful woman’s self-sacrificing encounter with death. To be pregnant was famously conceptualized...
The Revolution that Wasn't
...capturing the scene behind him. The gas clouds soon enveloped him when I tried to talk to him, and, dazed by inhalation, I had to help him off the front...
"Let Loose Your Tongue"
...she first came across this novel? Elisabeth Jaquette (Lissie): I found it through the tried and true method of haranguing people for book recommendations. I was studying at CASA at...
London, Underground
...in a city that has achieved worldwide fame for being perpetually on the edge of sinking into its own filth. Lots of people have tried to clean up this city,...
Syria and the Left: A Call to Arms
...camps, while the remaining 90 percent have tried to assimilate in urban, peri-urban and rural areas. This does not include the scores of unregistered refugees. While Turkey hosts roughly half...
Tiktok LLM
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
Reviving Cabiria
...familiar institutions of Italian culture, all of which seem to have lost some majesty after the war. He skewers the Catholic Church when Cabiria and a caravan of prostitutes journey...
Sunday Reading: August 20, 2023
...Communism. The panel will focus on peer-led work, links between the trans and disability justice movements, feedback loops between empire and debility, and liberatory harm reduction. “The Palo Alto System”...
Un(der)known Writers: Diane di Prima
...our own music From Revolutionary Letters. Diane di Prima celebrated her 80th birthday this April, and her newest book of poetry, The Poetry Deal, was just released in September....
Teenage Screams
...As if he can’t even bop around in his room without a lens present, Marc puts on music and dances alone in front of his laptop. His expression shifts from...
Sunday Reading
...Rights "the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists" Coming Home: Queer South Asians and the Politics of Family Music's New Genre: ISIS...
Waiting For
...live in a culture that can make murderous white men with guns a lot faster than they are—occasionally, rarely, almost never—sent to prison. You don’t get justice by occasionally, rarely,...
Police Mortality
...extracted hundreds of scenes. Many are hilarious out of context, in which police are killed, kill, or otherwise act piggish. Impressively, the clips communicate well enough with one another to...
Sunday Reading
...feats, and part of what fascinated me was the ease with which they went in and out of it" long list of good art tumblrs pizza-compass.com Bint Battuta: A veritable...
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...sex only a little kinky. Can I go now? If I’m not back soon they’ll kill him. --Witness #83 Words fail me. I do not know how to speak of...
"Dangerous" Indeed: Simon & Schuster Imprint Publishing Book by White Supremacist
...ground in our country by the minute. White supremacy kills people, and it will kill more people in the coming years. This isn't about me just not liking what Yiannopoulos...