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Brief history of a term and a movement: White Supremacy Part 1
First part of Anis Shivani‘s very nice introduction to the issues surrounding the meaning of “white supremacy” and how the term has been at the heart of a number of movements in America. Yet we may conceive of white supremacy,… Continue reading
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Standing Rock: Counterterrorism Tactics Used by Energy Transfer Mercenaries to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”
I really wish that reporters would just call “private security firms”–military-for-hire–what they really are: Mercenaries. More than 100 internal documents leaked to The Intercept by a TigerSwan contractor, as well as a set of over 1,000 documents obtained via public… Continue reading
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Of girls, bulls, and the authenticity of subversion
“…March 7th of this year, the day before International Women’s Day. Fearless Girl appeared, standing in front of Charging Bull. On the surface, it appears to be another work of guerrilla art — but it’s not. Unlike Di Modica’s work, Fearless… Continue reading
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Notes on Immaterialism | Becoming Integral
In Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory (Polity Press, 2016), Graham Harman applies his object-oriented philosophy to social objects. The book functions as “a compact list of the first principles of object-oriented social theory, which I have also called ‘immaterialism’” (126).… Continue reading
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Pedagogies within the Crises of Uncertainty
I am having a very good time this semester studying one on one with one of the academics at the University of North Texas who has agreed to be on my dissertation committee down the line–when I get to that… Continue reading
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False equivalency not fake news our biggest media problem
Unfortunately, the mainstream media still tends to treat figures like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Coulter as “conservative commentators,” as if they were nothing more than slightly rabid versions of William Safire, or right-wing counterparts to Nicholas Kristof and Maureen Dowd. The… Continue reading
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More Deadly Police Encounters Than We Thought
The Guardian US determined that police killed 1,146 people last year during interactions on the street. By contrast, police departments reported just 444 police shootings to the FBI in 2014. Source: More People Die in Police Encounters Than We Thought… Continue reading
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Anti-Fascism vs. Nostalgia in “Rogue One”
Thanks to my old high school friend, John F., for pointing this out to me. Great summary of why Rogue One may be the best Star Wars film yet. The author is at pains, sometimes, to be sufficiently critical; maybe errs… Continue reading
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“Coming Apart” – Harper’s Magazine
The term we commonly use for what is happening in the Mission is “gentrification.” But the changes at hand are taking place on a far greater scale, and are connected to a nationwide reorganization of… Continue reading
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Public infrastructure, private investment
#Infrastructure is a new buzzword… should NOT be a buzzword as it is absolutely crucial to the life of any civilization. But it is the buzzword because the president-elect promises to go heavy and hard on upkeep/new projects. Of course,… Continue reading
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Richest administration in modern American history
Billionaires and millionaires meeting with president elect inside the Trump Tower: “What kind of government have you made for us?” Donald the Trumpeter to elite followers: “An unabashedly open plutocracy if you can ravage it!” How can anyone still believe that… Continue reading
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Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
Every demagogue needs an enemy. Trump’s was the ruling elite, and his charge was that they were not only failing to solve the greatest problems facing Americans, they were trying to stop anyone from even talking about those problems. “The… Continue reading
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What Normalization Means – The New Yorker
Normalization isn’t just a matter of human-interest stories and a faith in checks and balances. What we think of as normal shapes our field of vision; it tells a story of the world and its possibilities. Racism, sexism, and the… Continue reading
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More clickbait about Clinton
Not really sure how the Trumpistas can keep yelling that the media is bending over backwards to elect Clinton at all costs when every paper and news channel, even “friendly” and “supportive” ones like the WaPo keep creating these clickbait… Continue reading
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Becoming Other: Foucault, Deleuze, and the Political Nature of Thought | Learning Philosophy of Change
In this paper–linked after the jump–Giorgio Bertini employs the notion of the ‘thought of the outside’ as developed by Michel Foucault, in order to defend the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze against the criticisms of ‘elitism,’ ‘aristocratism,’ and ‘political indifference’–famously leveled by Alain… Continue reading
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Trump supporters are not the wretched of the earth
It’s about race, culture, and identity — not economics. …The press has gotten extremely comfortable with describing a Trump electorate that simply doesn’t exist. Cottle describes his supporters as “white voters living on the edges of the economy.” This is,… Continue reading
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It’s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election – The Washington Post
It would be nice if this election could contain zero people who sexually assault. Source: It’s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election – The Washington Post Continue reading
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