February 2012
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afieryflyingroule:
old school fruits of occupation + how to secure the loot
Due to popular demand, seats are expected to sell out.
“We have one tortilla rule in our house: too many tortilleras spoil the tortilla....”
– Our Barrio Ranchito: Tough Tortillas
“Looking for community in the world of academics is like looking for trust among...”
– Letters of Insurgents (via maskine) reblogging myself (via shaygonzales)
Statement TPPA Food Sovereignty Network →
La Via Campesina and the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance jointly make this statement at the conclusion of the APEC meeting in Hawaii regarding the further negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). This statement is to express our alarm about the implementation and pursuit of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) across the Asia-Pacific Region, in particular the TPPA.
In the wake...
sorryexcuseforasociallife:
Yesterday at my school’s health clinic I met an older woman named Oralee. Upon her arrival, she noticed a stack of female condoms. “What is this?” She picked one up. “They’re condoms for women,” my friend said. “Or you can put them in your butt for anal sex,” I added. Her eyes widened. “I can show you how they work,” I said. “Please do!”
Having just watched a video on...
“Does anyone else find it hilarious that The Chronicle has chosen to hide its...”
– In Which The Chronicle Rests My Case « Copy & Paste
Pattong.au (audio/basic Object) →
Kalinga pattong via BIBAK San Diego
Distinguished scholars return from USACBI... →
CHARLES DUHIGG: Well, one of the things that President Obama asked was, is it ever possible to bring back those jobs to the United States, to make iPhones in the U.S.? And what Steve Jobs said was—I think accurately—those jobs are never coming back. And the reason why isn’t just because workers are cheaper in China, although that—they are cheaper in China; it’s because China has established a huge competitive advantage over the U.S. There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can’t replicate. And there’s a system of labor there that allows factories to hire 3,000 people overnight or, as Mike can speak to, create facilities that house 250,000 workers and change them in a couple of hours or a couple of days from one product to another. It’s an amazing, amazing manufacturing capacity that’s grown up overseas—with harsh costs associated with it, but that makes it possible for us to get a brand new iPhone every single year.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, and I wanted to ask you about that capacity, because we hear a lot about the post-industrial society, but in reality, when you’re talking about these plants that have 100,000 workers, they dwarf anything that the old classic River Rouge plant of Henry Ford had created.
CHARLES DUHIGG: That’s exactly right. America lives—might live in a post-industrial society, but we do so because other countries are entering their industrial society, and they’re entering it at a scale, at a speed, at a perfection of production, that was completely undreamed of in the United States in the past. And I’m sure many of your audience, many people, they carry an iPhone in your pocket. It’s a wonderful device. It’s an amazing device. And it exists only really because there is this nation that can produce it so quickly and so efficiently.
“The key thing was the kind of engagement that helped us better understand why...”
– ‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement
The Drowning Mermaid: Restrictions May Apply: Some... →
One of the most interesting things has been the way in which my students can all find commonalities with each other (Chamorro, Filipino, Chuukese, Palauan, Yapese…) to voice feelings about differences between them and people from the Continental US. But once we start working on current events, particularly local current events, where specific groups are often highlighted (and those ...
Mentors: Sianne Ngai on Stanley Cavell →
lareviewofbooks:
SIANNE NGAI describes her time studying with STANLEY CAVELL.
I was a grad student in English at Harvard in the mid-90s, but physically there for just three years, anxious to move to Brooklyn for a relationship as soon as I became ABD. In that brief but intense period of time, I tried to take as many courses offered by Stanley Cavell as possible. In my last year, I asked him to...
The Scale of the Universe →
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Reimbensyon ng Diskursong Kolonyal « Kapirasong... →
“In a neoliberal world that exalts the atomized and unmoored individual and in LGBTQ communities that celebrate self-making by clinging to the promise of coming out as the romance of individual liberation, tacit subjects may make us more cognizant that coming out is always partial, that the closet is a collaborative social formation, and that people negotiate it according to their social...
“We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan (via fleurishes)
"Dice" (part of FronteraFest 2012's Short Fringe) →
baby just won best of fest. yes.
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...
