Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00
...teach, when we're lazy – that criticism means. These kind of critiques alone might be able to help withstand the present, which means, in no small part, destroying the notion...
Where is the Line Between Us?
...of their county, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics. I proudly offer this...
Violent Motion, 1
...the screen culture we live now has to include not just the kitten video – see 1901's Sick Kitten – but also media spectacles of execution, above all the "lynching...
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...or even uncannily predicting certain developments in mass culture, therefore confirming its assessment of its own present and trendlines. Prescient how? A sketch of the rest of the show’s narrative...
The Great Leap Forward
...on the cultural landscape, it indiscriminately sucks into its vortex the signs, icons, and golden calves of both high and low culture, strips them of original contexts to repurpose and...
The Changing Faces of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
...National Book Award winner and MacArthur Fellow was tackling comic books, but at the same time, I wasn’t thrilled with some of his depictions of African themes and cultures. Let...
Green Nightmares
Fossil fuel resistance and repression are escalating
Heroines
...am not qualified to teach literature. Male professors with no interest in the subject teach women’s literature instead. I am reminded of my lack of a terminal degree. (Why does...
Sunday Reading
...day low prices. Top 1% average $666,000 gain in stocks since 2009; 50% of US own no stocks. ReclaimUC: Bumped until Tuesday. Privatizing UC instruction On the no-confidence votes at...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The University of California's united front for saving the public univ—oh, wait Chancellors gone wild The Chicago school Universities, inequality, and the overtime rule "Here’s something I...
Death Stares
...of the above. Accepting that death itself is natural, but the death anxiety and terror of modern culture are not.” The practices having to do with "digital media" and death...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.18.13
...a radio appearance to talk nail art and black culture. Insect aside: Since bug sex is so 2009, let's turn our attention to bug fashion. Grin and bear it: Katrina...
The Slow Politics of Occupied Filmmaking
...to ourselves, but to culture as a whole. The power of the pepper spray video clip to affect the material situation is undeniable, though the process by which it occurs...
White Feminism and Eugenics: The Case of Gertrude Davenport
...scientific and popular audiences, manage a research station, and teach new generations of scientists and fieldworkers about eugenics. But at the same time, her enthusiasm for simplifying human heredity made...
Militain Us
...college campuses, NASCAR races, state fairs, amusement parks, music festivals, and retailers, causing controversy in 2007 when a line of True Heroes action figures was released at Toys “R” Us....