An exemplary revolt
...people revolt, they know their objectives: at Battipaglia, they didn't bring petitions to the prefect, but they tried to set fire to the town hall and devastated the tax collector's;...
Editors' Note, Vol. 35: Sick
...live partly outside of measure, and often makes them crazy too. Another kind of crazy-making death-in-life is is living with the knowledge that you have tried to kill yourself, as...
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...
What It Takes to Build Your Credit: "Urban Zoning," by Billy Kahora, Week Two of Blogging the Caine
...to observe that Stephen has done a lot of the work in framing this story that I would have tried to do, and which I would have done much less...
Margot, Not at the Wedding
...plot, and tried to annul her dangerous sexuality by reconstituting it as love of the first man, La Mole, who really tempted her. (See also, among others: Princess Di.) The...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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”...
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...
“The men will not do it”: 19th Century Sex Work and Reform
...to function as employment agencies that provided material aid and shelter. Although the women of early and mid-century reform societies had negative stereotypes about the women they tried to “save”...
‘At Last, We Are Alive’
...that the State tried to smash with the hooves of São Paulo police, is that, at last, we are alive.” Brum slammed this against dismissals of the mass grievances as...
The Streets of Spain
...it hits, is not nearly as light-hearted as these kids were. I saw about 10 discharged while hiding behind a newspaper kiosk as I tried to traverse the square. By...