How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Dixie Be Damned, But Damn Everything Too
An Interview with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley.
America.
...2nd Amendment—deranged, but not without an inner logic pertaining to people’s uninfringeable desire for danger—not only in the central role of the gun in the mass killing of those who...
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
Psychic Refuge
..."translate" cultural difference; for example, in some cultures people may not identify individualized emotions but identify them as part of collective, family or social feelings, which are not compatible with...
The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education
What happens to higher education when universities can no longer hike tuition?
Forget Me Not
...rush to commission a memorial for Sean Collier, the police officer who had been killed on the MIT campus in the multi-day chase following the Boston Marathon bombing. But myriad...
Whose Time Is It, Anyway?
The uneven temporalities that structure global capitalism require martyrdom from its least valued commuters
Hanford Idyll
...(and to protect Hanford from outside interference) is now itself protected from development and agriculture, part of an edenic landscape imagined into the future. The Reach is presented as an...
Sunday Reading
...by an American company.” Lifecycles and Makerspaces in an “Electronics Graveyard”: Agbogbloshie Dorothea Lange’s Photographs of Japanese-American Interment “When people mourn the decline of Istanbul, they mourn the willful transformation...
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
...the overlap between online and offline violence is emblematic of the same perils of patriarchal power that give rise to rape culture in the “ real world .” The Internet...
Sci-Fi Crime Drama With A Strong Black Lead
...look like stereotyped representation of their traits as defined by a particular software system, and that that stereotype will align with the biases of the local culture in which it...
black . . . gay
.... gay” formation. Dagmawi Woubshet writes, “Given the persistence of death in black life, black culture is imbued with an anticipatory sense of loss, recalibrating the calendar of mourning to...
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Sunday Reading
...and look stupid: the ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr every conversation ever about sexual harassment watching male team sports while female Sia Fiegel's songs of the fat brown woman the healthy...
Once Upon a Dream
...songs, the sardonic, aggressive edge to her impressionistic lyrics is sharper, and there’s something like anger in her relentless sexy posturing. The press emphasized that Jolie herself—megastar, businesswoman, Special Envoy...