February 2012
H-Net - H-Adjunct Discussion Network →
Vulnerability: The Human and the Humanities -... →
THE SCHOLAR & FEMINIST CONFERENCE 2012
Barnard Center for Research on Women
This spring’s conference will explore the concept of vulnerability as a fundamental and universal characteristic of the human condition. Scholars and activists alike have explored the way in which an understanding of these common vulnerabilities has the potential to transform our kinship structures,...
Possibility is not reality: but it is in itself a reality.… Possibility means “freedom.”… That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunger and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought.
—Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1929–35
—A sign-off between activists has long, beautifully, been “Solidarity.“
—The drive...
Adjunct Working Conditions →
Adjuncts of the World Unite
Yesterday, Michael Bérubé, president of the Modern Language Association and newfound hero of contingent faculty everywhere, published the essay “Among the Majority” on the MLA website. The piece is a reflection on the New Faculty Majority’s 2012 Summit he attended last weekend in Washington, DC, as well as a recap of some of the MLA’s recently-released...
John Ashbery – REVOLUTIONesque →
SPARINGLY
A bunch of stuff. Junk mail. Dead toilets. No one needs to know pretty much about that attitude I suppose. And a hundred others. The inmates are running the asylum. The humming of great machines soars above the plain. We are sorry. We never meant to do harm. Sunlight crashed through the veil, pulled the mud out from under him. Whether that explains the treaty of this or that...
February 4 marks the start of the Philippine-American war 113 years ago, instigated by supposedly friendly US troops who fired at Filipino soldiers of the nascent First Philippine Republic. Through superior armaments, brutal means and devious tactics, the US prevailed and thereafter established direct colonial rule.
It’s important to recall that historical episode when we examine the implications...
“DICE 1950s? Butch/femme? Musical?! Where’s my can of Royal Crown and...”
– Gay Place: Don’t Stop, Get It Get It - Columns - The Austin Chronicle
“We are accused of terrorism,
If we dare to write about the remains of a...”
– We Are Accused of Terrorism | Nizar Qabbani (via seelenlos)
January 2012
Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: PRISONS AND... →
loneberry:
If you are from Baltimore, you probably know that there has been a 5 day occupation of the site where a $104 million youth jail is planned to be built. On Monday 6 people were arrested for trespassing state property when they entered the site to construct a schoolhouse in protest…
Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: PRISONS AND... →
loneberry:
Loïc Wacquant article “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration” gives a good historical/theoretical overview of the “peculiar” institutions that have operated to “define, confine, and control” black Americans in the United States.
The trajectory of these institutions might look something like this:
the first fifteen days » anneboyer →
bindrah: Article I wrote for the Daily: Jerson Ballena loses his job. You get a cheap laptop. Welcome to globalization, Philippines style.
