Staff at Wits University Threatened
...Wits University in Johannesburg: a threat which sets a worrying trend for times to come for all of us who teach at universities. The backdrop is the militarisation of our...
Women Cuddling Animals
...LSD, injecting himself and his dolphins with the drug, sometimes at the same time. The purpose of Lilly’s Saint Thomas compound was to teach dolphins to speak in English. By...
Life and Death in Dioramas
...of her primary teaching tool, a series of dollhouse-sized dioramas called The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. The dioramas were designed to teach investigators how to observe a crime scene,...
Work Sucks
The revolution will not be a job fair. No one is gonna check your CV.
My Father’s Sign
...like our uncle Aki, who he met on air. Aki came to visit a number of times; he even tried—and failed—to teach me how to hold chopsticks properly. (I still...
Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance
...teach me to love Blackness and love Allah nonetheless. In her eyes and in His, I was whole. * * * As Black folks, we are in practice not a...
American History
...entertainment. The sense of “capturing” something on film is not far off here; wielding the technology of film, many Westerners from Edison to James Cameron have tried to contain anxieties...
Five Questions with Christopher Rey Pérez
...share with each other that work toward a better reality but it’s sustaining them over time and across geographies that makes self-realization difficult. In Palestine, I used to teach a...
Sunday Reading
...schoolrooms, they became a tool for teachers to control the movement of children, whose healthy tendency toward activity made them difficult to teach." "The MOOC is a dialectic. It invites...
Sunday Reading
...Kobanê Enemy Aliens: the forgotten history of World War I internment camps On Hisham Aidi’s new book Rebel Music Mosque & Memory “For New Yorkers who value fair policing...the slowdown...
Sunday Reading
...Failure n+1 Occupy Gazette Issue 4 Invisible Borders that Define American Culture Leave Your Cellphone at Home Music, Modernism, and the Twilight of the Elites The Rise of the Wonky...
Miracles and Wonder, Faith and Diaspora: On Tope Folarin's "Miracle"
...a literary commodity. It can help bring people together, help them live at peace with each other, and it can even teach us useful ways of living in the world....
Feinting Spells
...at the world’s rebirth; Like the yeast white flour needs; For who would teach rhythm to a dead world of cannons and machines? Who would give the shout of joy...
Dissatisfaction City
...could one avoid noticing the social forces acting upon it, the power and extortion compelling it to undulate and pose in rhythm to the music? But then one of my...
Sex Appeal, Beauty, and Normalcy: Rachel Hills' "The Sex Myth"
...confident in their appeal. Meanwhile, the actual route to confidence about one’s sex appeal—having positive early sexual experiences—remains unconsidered in the culture at large, almost shooed aside in favor of...
Buying the Future
...the contract itself, just like for healthy cows. Otherwise, students will simply learn rather than valorize their human capital at the investors’ expected rate. Whereas most financial engineering has tried...