December 2009
67 posts
“Thus, the “crisis” that many currently refer to in relation to...”
– Xamuel Bañales, “The Coloniality of Organizing at UC Berkeley: November 2 Speech”
A new journal, Reclamations has been launched “to address the need for critical reflection and debate on the new political front forming to fight the privatization of public education.” ...
“Western intellectuals, whether liberal or conservative, have been brilliant in...”
– Matt Hamburg, “Beyond Man: Redefining Human”
step up ii: the streets is on
i will therefore be unavailable for the next 90 minutes.
so, i'm wondering
vruz:
—via lowendtheory:
your politically correct and flabbergasted need of doing something special about it is really the only inadecuate thing.
how about saying ‘hello’ ?
“my own experience is that black people can be quite smart when you let them [my emphasis], and they will be able to tell that the white boy never intended to offend them nor cause them harm in any way.”
lol. ...
so, i'm wondering
vruz:
—via minorjive:lowendtheory:
never having my been a white parent, i’m wondering what do you do when you are a white parent and you happen to also have a white child who also happens to be in the throes of a serious and intense “look, a negro!” moment in public space? kids—especially young ones—have these moments around me all the time, but their parents seem especially inept at figuring...
so, i'm wondering.
never having been a white parent, i’m wondering what do you do when you are a white parent and you happen to also have a white child who also happens to be in the throes of a serious and intense “look, a negro!” moment in public space? kids—especially young ones—have these moments around me all the time, but their parents seem especially inept at figuring out how to...
off to a brilliant start
arrived 90 minutes early for my flight this morning only to wait in line for over an hour and be told that since i was checking in “late,” my reservation had been canceled. now i get to sit in the detroit airport all day. fabulous.
maybe this is my opportunity to spend the day getting drunk.
Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment →
(via bonesarecoralmade)
Once seen as an invaluable public good and laboratory for critical learning and engaged citizenship, public schools are increasingly viewed as a site of crime, warehouses or containment centers. Consequently, students are also reconceived through the optic of crime as populations to be managed and controlled primarily by security forces. In accordance with...
I haven’t slept. A dear friend lost a parent last night.
I think Susan Seligmann had maybe met me twice when she started trying to track down a job for me. No doubt she would have succeeded had I not elected to move across country for school. Occasionally, I would come home to an e-mail or phone message: Susan wanted to make sure that I knew that she was still looking out for me. ...
SFO-->DTW
oh, how i cherish the sheer gleefulness that is the experience of being crushed by the inevitable asshole who would prefer not to acknowledge that the person behind him has knees. or feelings.
redeyes are the worst. am now in cincinnati airport awaiting my connecting flight.
um
schwartzy:
lowendtheory:
did i miss something or did chuffedlittlemuffin just drop off the face of the earth? we miss you, chuffed!
i was just about to ask the same thing about you! i almost texted you this morning until i realized it was 6am your time (you probably would have been up anyway). then i decided to send you an email instead and promptly forgot.
oh, i’m around! after...
wish i hadn't finally started looking at etsy
just spent $50 on scarves.
National Call for March 4 Strike and Day of Action...
California has recently seen a massive movement erupt in defense of public education — but layoffs, fee hikes, cuts, and the re-segregation of public education are attacks taking place throughout the country. A nationwide resistance movement is needed. We call on all students, workers, teachers, parents, and their organizations and communities across the country to massively mobilize for a...
New beat, “Keep it Set.”
WatchNew York “Naked Teacher Scandal” video. Watch until the end; the last student is brilliant and amazing.
wordsandsteel:
chuffedlittlemuffin:
Do you love me? Do you love you? I don’t love myself, and if I don’t love myself, how the hell am I gonna love anyone else?
what is the problem with cultural studies what is the problem with cultural studies what is the problem with cultural studies what is the problem with cultural studies what is the problem with cultural studies YOU. And me. The problem...
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“[Politics] makes visible what had no business being seen, and makes heard a...”
– Jacques Rancière, Disagreement (via fugitivesound)
this week i made a decision that may alienate me...
i really like lady gaga. no qualifications; no but i disagree with x or y; no i dig this but not that;; and no analysis to justify thinking what i do; just really like.
i heard “bad romance” on the radio and just thought it was a phenomenal musical moment, and i am fucking happy that someone so unabashedly weird is making these hits.
weird. writing this almost—yes, only...
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Obama's Big Sellout - Matt Taibbi →
Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and...
“it cannot be denied that the university is a place of refuge, and it cannot be...”
– Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, “The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses”
“Since terms such as “postmodern,” “postcolonial,” “hybridity” and the call for...”
– abstract of Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies,Joan Dayan (via igather) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
I tell everyone I know to read this essay, and really anything Joan/Colin Dayan has ever written; it’s an unbelievable body of work.
I wonder if obama really believes the stuff he so...
“thanks to the courage, grit, and perseverance of our men and women in uniform, we have given iraqis a chance to shape their future and we are successfully leaving iraq to its people.”
or, retooled to include some of the stuff that the rhetoric allows you to ignore:
“thanks to the courage, grit, and perseverance of our men and women in uniform [who face a dishonorable discharge...
“A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.”
- Washington Post Corrections [see below before clicking]
Again, I’m probably late to the game on this, but did the folks at the WaPo not think that it was their journalistic responsibility to point out the...