Speaking in Memes
...culture, a parallel to the biological gene in Richard Dawkins’s original coinage. Many have since adapted the term to describe how cultural products pass virally from person to person by...
African Poetry Fictions
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Keguro Macharia, "African Poetry: Introduction": The story of African poetry, if is to be told, will be the accumulation of very stories: very...
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
...reproduction, a mass of bodies feeding off fertile ground. The Latin root colere has a double sense: to cultivate and to settle. But the need to settle implies departure, and...
Jul, One Year Later
...a musical track in remembrance of Juliano featuring his students. It is a moving tribute, and frankly, it proves difficult viewing as his coffin is carried atop waves of friends,...
World Melodrama: Opfergang, 1944
...and workers collide in a way that is graphically emblematic of the divided nation France became under Nazi occupation. Lumière d'été also heats up the sexual musical chairs of Renoir’s...
The Sabotage of Life (Sabotage Talk #4): 5/14
...could support one so unlivable. Topics include: birth strikes, Neo-Malthusian and otherwise; animation; hostile objects; material feminist urban design; slapstick; unwaged time. (Seating is limited, please register on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-the-sabotage-of-space-manual-override-lecture-4-tickets-11588885669?aff=efbevent...
African Poetry: D.M. Aderibigbe
...in high school, one teacher used to beat his wife during evening prep. All the students—this was an all-boys school—heard her cries. We rarely heard anyone intervening. Someone might have...
Do You Speak State?
...the Queen and other British authorities have often received replies (all catalogued on www.forvik.com). However, these replies generally involve his questions being forwarded to another office, as civil service bureaucrats...
Subscription Drive
Welcome to The New Inquiry Subscription Drive! During the five weeks from November 13 to December 20, we at The New Inquiry are doing something we almost never...
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
...respond with vitriolic jeers as the police struggle to prevent a riot.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGH5IyKQn98 Elsewhere: Rashad Shabazz, 'Black Militancy: Notes From the Underground' For a generation of young activists, the...
As crazy, as crazy, as crazy as I am /
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZBLAovd28 / nothing can parallel the very non-parallel fact of those pants and that floor...
Sunday Reading
Actually Aisha: Julius Malema's Tailored Revolution Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom Yuna on Fashion, Race and Not Showing Her Hair My 'Oriental' Father: On The...
A Message from the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee
...and legal fund. Our comrades have had our backs. It's time to have theirs. Donate here. Sincerely, Members of the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee - NYC https://www.facebook.com/tmocnyc @TMOCNYC [email protected]...
Freedom Industry
Gary Southern has had a long day. Freedom means this matters. Gary Southern is thirsty. Freedom means he has water. Human beings need water, constantly, always, and desperately....
The Anti-Family
...90s, when a young director named Lauren Lazin founded the “News and Specials Department.” Many of the department’s first ventures grew out of MTV’s musical focus—pieces on the history of...
Courage, Please
...Robert Ashley died today. In memory of one who believed that the "technique of profound collaboration is essential." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza2GCF74lo ...