The Loves of Others
...not have met, and had they not met each other, each would have met someone else, and that would have been a love story too. How-we-met stories teach us two...
The African is Not at Home
...culmination of a more insidious systemic violence that otherises Somalis in Kenya daily: in ethno-chauvinist discourse, in derogatory remarks and representations in popular culture, in economic and political marginalisation. Government...
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...in scopophilia, and we’re very near sighted as a culture because of it. Thinking about your epigraphs, from Mishima and Kathy Acker, did you ever consider yourself a novelist? And...
Trigger Warning Week
...means, and what we think it means. As a culture, we still refuse collectively to accept that most rapes are committed by ordinary men, men who have friends and families,...
Sunday Reading
...Apologies to Vaughan; congrats to brief and to Tusi Tamasese The CBS Desiring Machine Best Movies of 2012 ReclaimUC: Let us eat cake! On the UC's new logo Free Cooper...
Social media and sensibility
...won't even know they have a choice about it. Another aspect of Pamela that can come across as boring is the way it must teach readers how to read novels...
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...its inevitable endgame, socialism, with Hell? Unclear. Unimportant. Heed. “The lesson I have to teach is this,” Read’s pencil concludes. “Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Have faith that free men...
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two
...unwillingness to accept norms and codes, our aggressiveness against those who would teach us lessons, give us advice, watch over us, or are simply moronic. • For us the figure...
Sunday Reading
...“I am increasingly convinced that, at some level, the science of cities is equivalent to the science of music. Or, more to the point: cities are music.” Who Would Kill...
Sunday Reading
...Kevin Carey's #EndOfCollege And Reasons to Pause ReclaimUC: The unmanageable university "We have exhausted all 'respectable' avenues, and they have not served us." In and out of compromise: in search...
No Kony Is an Island: Death and Profit in Central Africa
...makes dead various bodies, ecologies, relationships, and spaces for the purpose of squeezing out natural resources that then feed into broader supply chains. The ability to execute this task efficiently...
Lockdown
...and manage the criticism and anger. With deflections and by appeals to charity and a sense of national duty, the government has tried to construct the narrative that it is...
Sunday Reading
...the French discovered Angkor The real roots of violence in Jerusalem ReclaimUC: Academia is killing my friends Vote no on every fee How austerity killed the humanities Why technology will...
Party Like It’s 1992
Early colonization and current gentrification are linked by their use of cages to gain land and exert zero-sum autonomy over those with darker skin
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Sunday Reading
...stuff Subashini Navaratnam on Les Mis, Red Lights, and white Oscars culture bait A tribute to last week's episode of Girls ReclaimUC: Management's backup plans (update on the state of...