Feminist Anthropology
...the intellectual landscape of the discipline and popular understandings of culture and sexuality in the 20th century. While Zora Neale Hurston is better known for her literary works, she was...
The Post-Colonial Space Opera
...by using her unique position in Ariekei culture. In many ways, Embassytown feels like a spiritual successor to the politically aware SF of the 1960’s and 70’s. In particular, its...
Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness
...Tigre (who blurbs the book), while including riot grrl and zine culture in her “depression archive” of cultural objects that bring her pleasure and community. The “stories of anxieties of...
Creative Tyranny
...of material culture for everyone, strengthening consumerism’s appeal as social communication and quasi-artistic expression. Social media intensify this, providing a low-barrier platform for people to disseminate their consumer behavior and...
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...
Sunday Reading
...cabinet? ReclaimUC: UC Berkeley uses sketchy, unproven funding model to finance $321 million stadium renovation UCLA medical school's unusually close relationship with sketchy pyramid-scheme Herbalife "Of the 320 students enrolled...
True Sailing Is Dead
...as James Dean seems to miss the peculiar appeal that his decidedly unsexy music has for adolescents. Conspicuously lacking in subtlety and seductiveness, Doors albums have more in common with...