Travel and Anti-Travel @ Mansion 1/14
... An evening of reading and music based on travel, anti-travel, epistles, history, and other weary geographies. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi will read from two forthcoming books: epistolary fiction...
Expressed in Fits
...expect never materialize. The citywide competition quickly fades from view. Practice is usually without music. At least once, music is denied: Karisma commands, “Cue the music,” as the scene cuts...
The Slopes of Davos
...professor Chris Washburne and his band taught the audience how to survive neoliberal uncertainty with the “spontaneous creativity that we have inherited from the African-American culture.” Quoting the early soloist...
Assemblage Required
...that forced the germ of the present moment into precipitous bloom. “The poor little culture grew up too fast,” she writes. All of a sudden, it had outgrown its old...
Astral Projections
...history and culture, evidence of this is slowly being erased from the face of the earth. I cannot access Jerusalem now and only memories of it remain, making reality as...
Said is Dead. Long Live Said! @ City College 9/27
...of war and terror. This panel brings together individuals working in a range of contemporary activist-intellectual forms – art, music, poetry, journalism, social media, and academic scholarship – to consider...
and that alone is love, that which never becomes something else
...the new plan. we picked up our car at the budget lot, we drove to hayley’s apartment, it was on mccarthy drive, near wilshire boulevard. hayley works at universal music,...
Playing With Death
...roleplaying game that began with 1980’s Rogue and emerged from the culture of tabletop, dice ‘n’ graph paper dungeoneering. The roguelike’s key characteristics are randomly generated environments and "permadeath" –...
Mourning
...the idea that human culture itself can be thought of as an elaborate work of mourning, our lives beholden to an original loss. Laqueur’s new book on death unearths the...
Black President
...that popular culture will always orient itself toward the president, although sometimes it’s a more powerful orientation than other times. The only thing that happened when Bush was president was...
Vol. 31 Editor's Note: Mourning
...In an interview with historian Thomas Laqueur, Hannah Black floats the idea that human culture itself can be thought of as an elaborate work of mourning, our lives beholden to...
A Time for Treason
...Security Culture, CrimethInc EFF Surveillance Self Defense The Intercept's Surveillance Self Defense against the Trump Administration Things To Know About Web Security Before Trump’s Inauguration How Journalists Can Protect Themselves...
Fear, Pain, and the Representation of Women’s Wartime Trauma
...psychology specifically, and medicine more generally, was used to reinforce gender and culture norms. Even though trauma related to air raids was a widespread and prevalent cause of incarceration in...
Spy vs. History
...Vietnam, there’s no real hope of parity; The Sympathizer is up against a much greater volume of weaponized culture. The spy models that difficulty while working as a technical consultant...
Thanksgiving is Bullshit
...Day. While the Fourth of July commemorates American independence from Great Britain—on the field of battle and print culture, with the publication of the Declaration of Independence—her vision of a...
“I do wish mother had a boudoir:” Hertha Ayrton’s Home Laboratory
...were not necessarily complementary in engineering at the turn of the 20th century. Further reading Elizabeth Bruton. “The life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician...