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...
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....
Sunday Reading
...for work experience that violates the Fair Labor Standards Act" "By making rap music and its most visible participants the lightening rod for America’s social ills Allen acquits institutional patriarchy"...
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, October 26, 2014
...Follow the robot's lead follow the robot's lead you will make beautiful light music it will be beautiful it is not the total disappearance of the human from...
Sunday Reading
...Losing Music “There are family trees, and there are trees from hell that are filled with snakes.” Un-bearing You Can Delete, But You Can’t Forget “Because I’m not coming back...
Sunday Reading
...Haiti's continued disaster of internal displacement Repurposing flying robot killing machines, because roads are too difficult Forced Entry The 22-year-old American woman who wrote gender equality into Japan's constitution Meet...
Chaos Will Set You Free
Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a novel that embraces its own instability to narrate the palimpsests of violence that bind the U.S. and the Philippines
Strike Force
...commissary… It is nothing new that prisoners have organized and tried to change things from within. What’s new is that now we are building a solid network of people outside...
Solving Desire
...from this representation? More troublingly, financial stakeholders have tried to advance these questionable treatments on the grounds that they are “feminist.” For instance, a “patient advocacy” campaign funded by Sprout...
Call Me Elena
...have to appear produces a space of absolute creative freedom. It’s a corner of my own that I intend to defend, now that I’ve tried it. If I were deprived...
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...et al were always just gentrified fandom. This shifts into a an analysis of how digital culture facilitates to IRL-gentrification, as exemplified by neighborhoods like Williamsburg. “NYC has lost the...
Sunday Reading
...Kunkel; Charles Pierce; Doug Henwood. Defined contribution health care. Drones on autopilot. ReclaimUC If you read any article this week, make it this one: Andrew Ross on Universities and...
Sunday Reading
...of Cambodia’s largely young, female and rural factory workforce by registering a kind of bodily objection to the harsh daily regimen of industrial capitalism” No One Is Hrant Dink ReclaimUC:...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: At the prospect of the document dump, not the goat. UC Berkeley student government passes divestment bill California's terrible MOOC bill has been amended—and it still means...
Sunday Reading
...with Fernand Braudel The Professional Worldview of the Effendi Historian Primo Levi and The Canto of Ulysses ReclaimUC: What really happens in those UC regents' meetings? Sports over education at...