Terrifying Robot Update: September 15, 2015
First they take our jobs, then they fill up our preschools? I hope President Trump does something about this. (via) • • • It will be important...
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...
Sunday Reading
...revolt Towards a Red Pakistan (1971) Asianism in India during the interwar years The world inside a Spanish globe Temporal culture in the Ottoman Empire On coding in Arabic Handel's...
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...
Aux Armes (or Not)
...ambivalence. The one attribute Sfar wisely refrained from ascribing to “his” Gainsbourg was musical passion, and for good reason: Serge Gainsbourg never really cared for music. He wanted to be...
Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons
Surplus Rebellions
...72. Translated by Eleanor Kaufman in “The Desire Called Mao: Badiou and the Legacy of Libidinal Economy,” Postmodern Culture 18: 1, September 2007.[/l] Of the many proponents of this view,...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...one verse and deal with intersections of network culture and urban communities of black and Latino youth, the traditional purview of hip-hop and other genres. One song, "Don't Feed the...
Full Brightness
...Brain Songs (the work of the Cabinet de Fumisterie Appliquée) is much better. Still, it sounds as if it could be music off a different prompt—“colors,” say, or “the singularity.”...
Sunday Reading
...irreproducible result? Deep state feudalism, and it's only getting worse. Split the payment system utility from banks' gambling. ReclaimUC: Real placement rates for Ph.D. programs in German, 2007-2013 "[W]hat parents...
The Irrelevant and the Contemporary
...“to surprise, challenge, and even disrupt our expectations for how art can shape our experiences.” POST-INTERNET If conceptualism tried to erase the need for an author, much of post-internet...
“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.
Kenya’s Three Tribes
...it can make songs, attract sacrifice and so exclusive it drives into hiding the complex and skeptical ideas that would serve it best?" -- Eavan Boland Moi. Is. Going. There...
Teaching While Black
...19th century British fiction, Romantic literature and culture, and theory) accessible without diluting it. Mostly I do this by poking fun of the writers on our syllabus. Shelley’s “I fall...
Sunday Reading
...he was floating thousands of feet above them.” White History Month ReclaimUC: Campus rape and the rise of the academic industrial complex Rape culture at the University of Ottawa Mount...
The Things We Do
...them to one of the three secondary schools close by. After that, they became part of the family, calling Grandmother maama and Grandfather taata. Kirabo tried to blink away her...