—“but was it a peaceful protest?”
? ? ? Jabr abu Jordan, "Crossing Lines: Capoeira, Movement, Activism," June 2014 I was looking at a picture of Hamoudeh—Mohammad Azzehs’ nickname—being carried to a waiting...
Have you read Stendhal?
...same time, be the current. State 2. Feeling and acting like a thing. Audio excerpt from conversation with Jimmy Brodkey, Tape 11, May 2010 [audio:http://www.stereohell.com/audio/brodkey.mp3|titles=A conversation with Jimmy Brodkey] Conversations...
Silten wares
The assembly line / It coughed And Thick was / The resultant silt It huffed / The silt thick And The trucks / Stunting like...
The Literary Community Presents: LET'S MAKE A MOVIE!
...Kickstarter party for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus Learn more and RSVP on Facebook Sliding scale. $20 donation recommended but pay what you can: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706884381/happy-baby-the-movie/posts/354932...
if these adjectives are synonyms of ‘enemy’
From a friend who translated this endlessly contemporary work: "One shouldn’t be too generous with certain adversaries. Against those who without disgust tolerated reading or listening to...
African Poetry: Introduction
...the collection. But we are also teachers of long standing, and serious readers of poetry from all around the world and within the long tradition of African poetry. Thus, we...
Song Yang's Vigil
Join Red Canary Song Saturday, November 30 to imagine a world where all massage parlor workers are safe and respected
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
The right-wing backlash against this Budweiser commercial is the best praise you can give it, like when Fox News described “No Fascist US” as “anti-Trump graffiti.” The...
Domesticated WildCats
...plant-based items for which RTI’s robotic technology is designed to forage. ... “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not...
Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology
...process of labeling is primarily a social and cultural activity. Through the continued use of these labels, scientists create a dangerous feedback loop that can blur the boundary between science...
Then and Now and Never (Part 1)
...the Assam Earthquake there that killed around 1,500 people). There it marks the always latently political discrepancy at work in how, and how many of, the dead are counted: “600...
Disband West Virginia
"At this point we leave West Virginia, not to mention it again for it is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or development...
After the Screening: This is Not a Film (Podcast)
...director Patrick Harrison discuss the film as they walk through the streets of New York immediately upon leaving the screening. [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/06/ThisIsNotAMoviePodcast.mp3|titles=After the Screening: This is Not a Film] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHGu8HLK6s...
Living Chess
...concentration, or originality. They demonstrated all of those qualities without the easy access to clubs, colleagues, and teachers that their male chess-playing contemporaries enjoyed, while also being wives and mothers,...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
...them from their homes. Steven J. Baum is, in fact, the largest such firm in New York; it represents virtually all the giant mortgage lenders, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank...
Sunday Reading
...Crazy Open Access: A Collective Ecology for AAA Publishing in the Digital Age ReclaimUC: In the Bay Area, adjuncts and artists unite to unionize Post-tenure Wisconsin "What happens in Wisconsin...