Five Questions with Nikki Giovanni
...It has no economic potential. Culture is culture and business is business! Didn't you know that? Which inimical public figures or institutions would exclaim ‘Culture is culture and business is...
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs
Security Culture Is Good
...city, and access to the MTA’s surveillance feeds. The department has cellphone-tracking stingrays, perfect for spy cops who don’t want to bother with courts, warrants, or the limited outside oversight...
Cartooning the Body
...a child’s supposedly passive consumption of whatever content is aimed at them, cartoons trace a political horizon defined by the profound absence of alternative possibilities. Within the globalized consumer culture,...
Woody Allen’s Good Name
...start by assuming she’s lying,” except in a rape culture, and if you are presuming his innocence by presuming her mendacity, you are rape cultured. It works both ways, or...
Creepshots and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of "Free Speech"
...we understand and describe ourselves to have a common social interest in promoting, protecting, or criminalizing something. Legal culture not only describes how and where the actual law is enforced—such...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
...himself — by his fear to be what he is, and by his cynical understanding that his skill as an actor can substitute for the functionality of the character, in...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...cinema could do no better. In temporary lieu of that, below are a couple of the films he dragged into the light and insisted be seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-pHcC_M3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-WQZx2oJo http://www.veoh.com/watch/v14074458aY356Cd4 Lastly,...
The Bitter Women of Japanese Noir
...a foothold in the telling of darker psychological narratives. Kirino, hailed in the States as the quintessential author of Japanese feminist noir, has struck a chord in Japan, and what...
Sunday Reading
...with Mariame Kaba ReclaimUC: "UCI Administration focused on protecting the University’s public image over the safety of its students." 5 ways fraternities are wielding major influence over university administrations The...
Sunday Reading
...Asia? ReclaimUC: Who's the boss? Complicating the critique of university administration No class today, no ruling class tomorrow: Lessons from the 1970 US student strike Disobedience and miseducation: Occupy and...
Sunday Reading
...fact that one of the agents was named Bloom filled me with foreboding.” ReclaimUC : UC Berkeley scrambling to cover stadium bill . . . and interest payments Berkeley and...
World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili
A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
...fear—he will be inadequate: with some exceptions, nearly every poem very visibly struggles to make burning silences into songs, to find ways of making the unspeakable absences of loss and...
The Uses of Orphans
...inequality. This is not a non-story. At the age of seven, I knew an awful lot about Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, China, and the Philippines so that I could correct...
Sunday Reading
...to feel, to be. The delicate matter of the shameez. Please Don't Have Sex With Robots If colonialism was the apocalypse, what comes next? Fragility ReclaimUC: U.S. education reform and...