Category: Control
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This Changes Everything | Vanity Fair
Hollywood’s most powerful women appear in the Geena Davis-produced documentary This Changes Everything, which draws a direct line between the president and the industry’s sea change. — Read on www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/this-changes-everything-toronto-film-festival-documentary-weinstein-trump-me-too “Hours after This Changes Everything concluded to a standing ovation, director Tom Donahue told Vanity Fair why it was so…
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Toxic masculinity endures on
Serving up bloody violence as a $10 pay-per-view on YouTube and charging as much as $200 for floor seats in the arena, this was an affirmation of the enduring bankability of toxic masculinity. In executing their contrived feud, the two pairs of brothers sought to assert their superior manliness through…
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Militarized policing not so popular
Study also finds that images of cops in military gear diminish support for increasing funding to police agencies. — Read on www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/08/22/militarized-policing-doesnt-reduce-crime-and-disproportionately-hits-black-communities/ The high militarization treatment also caused support for police funding in the United States to fall by roughly four points in the M-Turk survey and two points in…
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Forget Coates vs. West — We All Have a Duty to Confront the Full Reach of U.S. Empire
Even when our work is primarily focused nationally or hyperlocally, as it is for most organizers and writers, there is still a pressing need for an internationalist conception of power to inform our analysis. This is not a contradiction. In fact, it used to be foundational to all major radical…
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The Feeling is Mutual: Interview with scott crow – RABBLE LIT
…one thing is to recognize that there can be conflict. Anarchy doesn’t mean that everything will be conflict-free… If someone else’s desires and needs don’t impede on my own… in communal terms, if they’re not trying to extract resources, time, people, oil, or whatever, if they’re not using violence to…
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What Ph.D. graduates have in common with industrial Rust Belt workers (essay)
A PhD in classics mulls over the future of graduate studies and the need for alt-academics. Truth: The need to discover new outlets for those who continue onward in graduate studies has become most real. I myself plan to do what I can to become a Philosophical Counselor. But my…
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New Speculative Fiction Anthology Explodes the Mainstream Trans Narrative
A new collection of stories from trans authors who go well outside the status quo box in exploring how trans signifies more than assimilation to the main stream. Rather than make a meaningful difference in the lives and acceptance of transgender people, the Trans Tipping Point [of 2014] was a…
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New TV AntiHeroes as archetypes of the American nightmare
This seems right to me. The dark heroes or antiheroes of TV–and I would go back to The Sopranos for the beginning of this–represent the fundamental fear of the “middle class” losing everything in one fell swoop. Life becomes about the happenstance safety nets we weave for ourselves and the…
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On Love, Transparency, and Truth: Universities and Their Leaders Are Not the Center of Moral Clarity, But They Are Accountable – drcone.com
My good brother Christopher Cone… As Wellmon suggests, the typical ends of the university are not final ends: “to create and care for knowledge and to pass that knowledge on by teaching” is not the ultimate goal. The Apostle Paul once wrote to Timothy that “the goal of our instruction…
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Prof. Shabazz on Spatializing Blackness thru Architectures of Incarceration
Explores how carceral power and the techniques of containment were woven into the quotidian geographies of poor and working class Black people on Chicago’s South Side. Through an examination of housing, policing, and the production of masculinity, Shabazz demonstrates how the explosion of Black incarceration rates in the latter 20th…
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How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists
The lesson from Charlottesville is not how dangerous the neo-Nazis are. It is the unmasking of the Republican party leadership. In the wake of last weekend’s horror and tragedy, let us finally, finally rip off the veneer that Trump’s affinity for white supremacy is distinct from the Republican agenda of…
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Trump’s Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy
The authoritarian drama unfolding across the United States has many registers and includes state violence against immigrants, right-wing populist violence against mosques and synagogues, and attacks on Muslims, Black people and others who do not fit into the vile script of white nationalism. The violence in Charlottesville is but one…
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…if not for the anarchists and antifascists
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking about the terror in Charlottesville. The white supremacist violence there began Friday night as hundreds of neo-Nazis, KKKmembers and other white nationalists descended on the city and participated in a torch march.…
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A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like
Whatever happens in Washington, we can start building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating community broadband in your community? In cities and towns, it’s probably through a municipal government, or even neighborhood mesh networks, which can swell across…
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Impacts and Insurance: Climate Change Risk Transfer
Is a creeping catastrophe insurable? Eberhard Faust, climate risk researcher at Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies, and disaster historian Scott Knowles talk about the instruments and scale-problems involved in calculating and transferring the costs of climate-change-related events on the ground. Source: Technosphere Magazine: Impacts and Insurance:…
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