June 2010
46 posts
Most of my memories from college are fuzzy. But this is not why I do not trust my memory. It is that even fuzziness manages to prick. Everything, nettles, eventually.
I was in New York because I wanted to leave; New York seemed like the kind of place you leave to. It was basically my only choice, anyway. I was going to college on a premature gamble and I was lucky to get in where I did. But...
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other intellectuals
ilykadamen:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
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Isaac Asimov (via novazembla, loudandsoft)
So, in response to the above...
May 2010
75 posts
Video: Israeli forces storm Gaza aid flotilla →
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derica replied to your photo: I find this cover pretty terrifying.
I know, it’s macabre right? but somehow funny? Reading this at the moment. Have you heard about the British film ‘4 Lions?’ It’s hilarious/macabre… youtube.com/watch?v…
How do you like it? That film looks like it’ll be a riot if it’s not disastrous—though perhaps what will make it a riot may have to do with its...
Hmm. It’s looking like I may be in for something close to a monthlong trip this summer, one that will take me from the Bay to Detroit, to New York, to Theory Camp in Hanover, back to New York, to Atlanta, and back to the Bay. If I pull this off, it’ll easily be the longest I’ve been out of California since moving here.
The prospect that much flying frightens me. After the...
Watch“Capitalism, Race, and Colonialism”
Toronto, May 16, 2010.
Andrea Smith is a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [sic], and co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence and the Boarding School Healing Project.Moderated by Alan Sears.
Betsy Esch is an editor of Against the Current, active in Palestine solidarity work, and a graduate...
schwartzy:
This beat kinda grimy, too.
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“None of these kicks go boom/ None of dem...
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“The university is proverbially the most conservative of institutions — tradition-bound, unable to respond and adapt to changing times. But under the postwar tutelage of its powerful outside mentors, entirely new academic fields of social and political science have been created, which cut effortlessly across traditional academic lines and prerogatives that have so hampered innovations...
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Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can Twitter replace a scholarly society?
As recently as the mid-2000s, questions like these would have been unthinkable. But today serious scholars are asking whether the institutions of the academy as they have...
It’s a strange world, y’all. I’m back up to the number of followers I began the day with.
Hello to the new, and not so new folks.
Why the hell are you following me?
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Interestingly, it looks like eight people have unfollowed me today. That’s never happened before. There’s probably no one reason, but, the more paranoid side of me imagines that some prefer it when I post the kinda stuff that makes them feel good and secure and self-righteous about their feminism and/or aspiring universalist left politics.
Those desires are so often...
[T]he silencing mechanism par excellence in Left political and intellectual circles today: “Don’t play Oppression Olympics!” The Oppression Olympics dogma levels a charge amounting to little more than a leftist version of “playing the race card.” To fuss with details of comparative (or relational) analysis is to play into the hands of divide-and-conquer tactics and to promote a callous immorality....
The disqualification of black resistance is not unrelated to the peculiar and long-standing cross-racial phenomenon in which the white bourgeois and proletarian revolutions on both sides of the Atlantic can allegorize themselves as revolts against slavery, while the hemispheric black struggle against actually existing slavery and its afterlife cannot authorize itself literally in those same terms....
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The Working Group recommendations for new revenue sources call for continued annual tuition increases and an increase in Non Resident students. Recommendations for savings call for reduced time to degree and cheaper “instructional delivery systems”— lecture-taught or on-line courses. Thus, future undergraduates will pay more for less. Measures for streamlining “throughput time to degree”...
shoulders asked: a funny question: did you find the lonzi piece in italian feminist thought or in feminists interpretations of hegel?
Regularly, small community colleges and high schools use our site as a second text book. I don’t know if any of the legal staff who sent us this “cease and desist” letter attended city high schools, but some of us did. The idea that teachers in schools anything like the woefully underbudgeted ones we attended having access to Howard Zinn is enough to make us smile (and grit our teeth at...
“You would think with all this free Howard Zinn available that it would be harming book sales, but A People’s History of the United States is currently ranked 169th in books on Amazon, 21st in History of the Americas, 20th in History of the United States, and first in Nonfiction Government Democracy. Not bad for a thirty year old history book. Not only do we think we’re not...
“If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the...”
– Frank B. Wilderson, III, “The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal”
“Oh boo. It appears you’ve gone off the deep end.”
– my girlfriend.
omg you guys
it’s been three. effing. months.
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Even Reagan Wasn’t a Reagan Republican →
unburyingthelead:
Reagan was born in 1911, and his social views were largely in line with midcentury norms. But compared to other conservatives—especially the evangelicals who helped elect him and still dominate the GOP base—his record on social issues while in office was remarkably undogmatic, especially for his time. In 1967, he signed a law in California that legalized millions of...
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Dear [lowendtheory]:
I am writing to invite you to meet members of the incoming Class of 2014! We hope you will be able to join us at the Summer Advising Session being held in San Francisco on June 22.
While these sessions provide incoming students with an opportunity to learn about [your alma mater’s] academic requirements, class scheduling and campus life, they also provide an...
“…within the disciplinary apparatus of knowledge production, one does not...”
– Robyn Wiegman, “The Possibility of Women’s Studies” in Elizabeth Lapofsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins eds., Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics. [First emphasis mine; second in original.]
“…while identity studies in general have sought to intervene in the U.S....”
– Robyn Wiegman, “The Possibility of Women’s Studies” in Elizabeth Lapofsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins eds., Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics.
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I do think that other –isms have click moments. One of the activists I profiled is a woman called Nia Robinson, and she’s an environmental justice activist. And she talks about various click moments, like when she realized that people of color are disproportionately affected by environmental issues. And they tend to feel very feminist, there’s this great intersection.
- Five Questions...
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Anonymous asked: F/M/K: History of Sexuality, V.1; The Order of Things; and The Archaeology of Knowledge.
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