Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: Graduate students of the world, unite! Class size and class struggle: Organizing lessons from the UC Santa Cruz strike The afterlife of the humanities Academic labor and the future...
So French
...beautiful, or is this all circular - we define "beauty" as that-which-is-French, giving those-who-are-French an advantage? Why not Japan, with its miracle hair-care products that I randomly discovered while shopping...
The Future, Probably
...Overdrive were being written, Japan, as Gibson explains here, was "the global imagination's default setting for the future" ("Modern Boys and Mobile Girls"). That possible future may not be a...
Solitary Confinement
...exotic, Shaw asserts that this perception "relies upon a viewers inchoate expectations of what a given culture's type should look like," built over time as the font is used on...
Dispensing God's Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.
Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
...considered a threat to national security and exploitable by axis powers, in particular Japan, who was promoting its own version of Black-Asian solidarity. As a Cold War strategy the White...
Sunday Reading
...of staff-driven unionism "A new, disassembled, fitting-and-starting labor movement." How to make up and spread a "weird Japan" story Local knowledge, bad press, and the future of Fukushima agriculture...
Sunday Reading
...(the) English in Current History Writing East India Company ship routes China & the Ancient Mediterranean World Sounding Islam in China Chinese Muslims & Shari’a Persians & Indians in Japan,...
Batter of Perception
...Illustration from Fairy Tales from Far Japan (1908) So mucked up with kneading dough she is she has to use her wrist to push her hair back from...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.12.13
...plan is job-cutting—and exiting some markets entirely, including Ireland and Vietnam. Financial analysts applaud the move. Beauty tech: Beauty appliances are booming in Japan, which means someday soon we Americans...
Sunday Reading
...bombing of Japan" "State officials ordered the photos removed from a website operated by the University of Texas at Austin." "three ambulances failed to find the Olympic velodrome because their...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 14)
...masala sauce may have been sampled by seagulls before it had gotten to you All-beef burger but hold the cow? You got it, if you happen to live in Japan...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.17.12
...not that my legs are a fraction as strong as Olympians')—when none of those features are particularly valued in our culture...yes, it feels sort of validating. Twenty-eight, looking great: Women...
Justice in One Country
...for example) and also “detached from his own marginality.” But in a world where, as André 3000 puts it, “across cultures, darker people suffer most,” detaching is easier for some...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...across a paper published by two scientists in Japan, who had been studying my favorite parasite, the Nematomorpha, or horsehair worm. Their research, published by the Ecological Society of America...
Un(der)known Writers: Nicola Chiaromonte
...Photo: Hiroshima, Japan (1945) “The individual who has lived through a great historical upheaval has not only been dispossessed of his beliefs. He has found himself face to...