Category: Whatever
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What appears tends to disappear
Φύσις δε… kαθ’ Ηραkλειτον… kρύπτεσθαι φιλεΐ Phúsis de… kath’ Erakleiton… krúptesthai phileî (Qtd in Themistius, Orations 5.69b, DK B123) The story I am about to tell therefore begins symbolically at Ephesus, in Asia Minor, around 500 BCE, on the day when tradition reports that Heraclitus, one of the most ancient…
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Can we overcome a white supremacy that has permeated our politics and culture? Part 2
Anis Shivani continues his rumination upon white supremacy by tracing the tendrils of it throughout contemporary American society. He traces its presence not only within the commonly understood movements that are openly racist, but also into the neoliberal policies and globalizing structures of the last thirty years. For Shivani, there is…
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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, as it has always been practiced in this country, as…
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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 records requests, reveal that TigerSwan spearheaded a multifaceted private security…
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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 Girl was commissioned. Commissioned not by an individual, but by…
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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). This presentation of an object-oriented social theory includes a detailed…
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The 21st Century Whitehead Will Be Deleuzian
New piece on Whitehead/Deleuze by my good brother Sam Mickey. …There are two tendencies that show up in the way people juxtapose Whitehead and Deleuze. On one hand, people situate them in combinatorial contrast, bringing together their concepts in ways that are different but not opposed. Example: Deleuze and Whitehead…
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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 part of my work. We are reading Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid…
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RIP Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore deserves a spot in the pantheon of great comic actresses like Gracie Allen, Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett, and it is for this that she will be most remembered,” said TV historian Robert Thompson of Syracuse University. “Her further accomplishments as a song-and-dance performer, a serious dramatic…
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Digital discs flow into the stream
‘“You’ve gone from a world where digital disturbed the scene, but now digital is falling in terms of ownership [of music],” Bakula said. Today, “the digital consumer has switched to streaming.”’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/27/no-mozart-did-not-have-have-2016s-best-selling-cd-what-really-happened-is-even-more-surprising/
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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 places, resources, and possibilities. In his new book, We Gon’…
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The Dangerous Myth That Hillary Clinton Ignored the Working Class – The Atlantic
The more frightening possibility for liberals is that Clinton didn’t lose because the white working class failed to hear her message, but precisely because they did hear it. Trump’s white voters do support the mommy state, but only so long as it’s mothering them. Most of them don’t seem eager…
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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 special interests, the arrogant media, and the political insiders, don’t…
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Research links racial resentment with gun ownership
The first step in our analysis was to understand the individual characteristics and political alliances and beliefs that are associated with gun ownership. To do this, we examined data from the 2012 American National Election Studies survey. Using a model that controlled for race, age, gender, education, income, partisan identification,…
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Lost in Translation: More from a Stranger in Academia
Another great reflection The Becoming Radical on the “loving struggle” to educate via critical pedagogy… Decade four and round two in academia—this time at the university level where, one might assume, things would be easier. First, a flashback. I am the English department chair, and the entire faculty… Source: Lost…
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Leonard Cohen’s New Album is Streaming, And It’s Wonderful — Flavorwire
Thank you NPR! The venerable public broadcaster is streaming Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker as part of its First Listen program, and you can hear it below. You should probably stop whatever you’re doing and listen. The album is, as its title suggests, very much concerned with dying light…
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