Rapture, Rainbows and Reproduction
...his own delirious repsonse to a double rainbow captures a culture-wide sense of joy at being able to experience miraculous nature and capture it too, master it, make it seemingly...
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
...identity with or without the consent of the subject. However, the culturally embedded beliefs about women’s roles affect both situations; in Western culture a woman seeking professional power must demonstrate...
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31
...title. Vogel died in April of 2012, but his contributions to film criticism and New York film culture live on. His film club, Cinema 16, which ran in the sixties,...
Little Yellow Boy Giant, Terrorist
...shape or foster artistic breakthroughs. The accusation that the city is risk-averse and WASP-y descends from an 'age-old attitude central to the very culture of Boston itself: a city where...
Sunday Reading
...race in America Q&A with the winners of Islamicate Short Story Contest Eimear McBride: ‘Writing is painful – but it’s the closest you can get to joy’ ReclaimUC: Israel and...
Sunday Reading
...on Paris Attacks In Catastrophic Times "Fuck off, Google" Dialed Up Unfollow Hostages ReclaimUC: Letter of solidarity from SFSU's ethnic studies graduate program The Mizzou blueprint: how to fight for...
Sunday Reading
...Arabic maqams and Persian dastgahs Indian rock bands of the 1960s T.E. Lawrence's visit to Kerala ReclaimUC: The UC Berkeley scientist who took on a leading herbicide manufacturer The grad...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: "Picture yourself as a stereotypical male" Teaching slavery to reluctant listeners The Prison University Project How Salaita was fired The University of California's perma-temp problem University of...
Sunday Reading
...A Very Still Life ReclaimUC: Mapping student debt "[M]uch of the meal plan cost does not go for an individual’s food. Colleges use the money to shore up their balance...
Sunday Reading
...of Steven Salaita Queer Black Studies Now Big Data and the‘Physics’ of Social Harmony ReclaimUC: Video: tear gas attack at UC Berkeley (1969) The hunger crisis in America's universities L.A....
Sunday Reading
...Ask a NASA Scientist, Dr. David Morrison, about the apocalypse. Is Brooklyn Better? Has Manhattan Gotten Worse? Revisiting NY Mag’s “I Hate Brooklyn” Article Seven Years Later. ReclaimUC: UC: The...
The Virtual Watchers
...including a bar in Australia that kept a 24-hour feed for its customers. However, the most astonishing discovery was a Facebook group that gathered some of the volunteering citizens that...
Circle of Presence
...Altered photograph of Murray Kempton, via On a recent Sunday, I opened up my Twitter feed to find Sherry Turkle getting pummeled for an opinion piece in the...
Free to Choose A or B
...with us and turns them into an entertainment product meant to make Facebook money. Facebook's excuse for filtering our feed is that users can't handle the unfiltered flow of all...
All Our Little Lives
...least that’s how we assume it feels, from our definitively creepy position of adult voyeur. Many tweets in the #followateen feed are extremely condescending, as is Thorpe’s original tweet. The...
Breakfast in Bedlam
...to feed lunatics anything to break their nightly fast. They were allowed only supper (called lunch today) and dinner. And these meals had to be bland and meager so as...