Namaste Inc.
...boost tourism. The Ministry promoted not only local attractions; it also presented a carefully constructed image of the country and its culture. For example, a promotional campaign featuring renowned Bollywood...
The Critic in Culture
...The role of the critic in culture: guardian/gatekeeper of the gift...
Hillbilly Ethnography
...of industry is not responsible for “a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it,” that reacts “to bad circumstances in the worst way possible”: with hedonism, materialism,...
Intimacy as Text; Twitter as Toungue
...A recent New York Times op-ed, “Tweet Less, Kiss More,” laments the frenetic pace of our lives, the multitasking that apparently so plagues digital culture. A glowing review...
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
...Part One precedes this post. Screen grabs of Véronique Doisneau by author. Véronique Doisneau will screen at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's upcoming "Double Life" exhibition, through March 2015. How...
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics
...hold together as sections in the later drafts and have a lasting effect on the organizational structure of published articles. The material culture of their work together has a legacy...
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
...of the few places where men can still write about love—yes, music, but I’m focused on writing at the moment. Speaking to my best friend, I comment that when it...
Sunday Reading
...and Arendt's. Spirited Away, 10 years later. ReclaimUC UC/CSU: No criminal charges for the UC Davis pepper-spray cop, but the UC regents approved a settlement with the students who were...
Me Meme
...threat that it will all go on their permanent record? The tension between the archive and the feed puts pressure on “authenticity,” which lingers on as a compass for the...
Sunday Reading
...The Eruv, a Jewish Quantum State Dhirubhai Ambani's time in Aden ReclaimUC: What do 2,358 administrators do at UC? 20% of the country's "best public colleges" (including UC Berkeley) have...
Sunday Reading
...racially discriminatory covenants” Stowaways and Crime Aboard a Scofflaw Ship ReclaimUC: ShotSpotter on campus The pushback against Arizona's ban on Mexican American studies "[S]enior university managers de facto agreed with...
Must Fall
Reflections on Must Fall’s paradoxical call, student politics in South Africa, and the role of the university
The History of Dialogue: Other People’s Papers
...Image by Louis Camnitzer (via) This is a dialogue between Teach, an adjunct philosophy instructor at a public university in New York, and Cheat, who has authored over...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The program era and the mainly white room Skin feeling On the side of the powerful The college president-to-adjunct pay ratio U.S. college staffing changes, 1987-2011 When schooling meets...
F/W 2015-2016 Lookbook
All images from Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archive, 1796-1925....
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
It's fine, it's fine, I mean, I didn't want to sleep tonight, any night, ever again, I hate sleeping so this robot is great and I love...