20 4 420: Irie Edition
In the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, "Enjoy Yourself, it's later than you think."
View ArticleMark Doten
I wanted to create a situation that Trump would not be able to actually catch up to in reality.
View ArticleKim Tolley
I think graduate students deserve the right to organize. So if I can help people understand that it’s not hard to start, I’ll feel very happy with this interview.
View ArticleZach Schwartz-Weinstein
You really need to think strategically about how universities work, how they are trying to invest their capital, and then go after them on those grounds, and use our positionality as contingent...
View ArticleKeith Bendis
Bierce's cynicism of our institutions, the rich, religion, and common beliefs could have been written yesterday.
View ArticleLars Iyer
In my current novels, the satyr play is interwoven with the tragedy. Seriousness and fun are intertwined, philosophy, the former queen of the sciences is one with its jester …
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The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal.
View ArticleWendy Kline
What the feminist health movement really did was change the way that we understand evidence and experience – and actually the knowledge of the body. Individual experience can be as legitimate as...
View ArticleMatthew Hongoltz-Hetling
On some level, Vermont remains the arugula-chomping hippie at the farmers' market, while New Hampshire is still a guy asserting his right to mow the lawn while naked.
View ArticleAndrea Muehlebach
You have to look beyond the monster itself in order to understand what it actually means.
View ArticleHunter Kennedy
It never reached the level of aesthetic. That's like a craps shooter talking about his skill with dice. I was just hoping to get lucky.
View ArticleCaptives – Norman Manea
Captives speaks to Sebald’s call to stick within the register of memory, even if memory has been stripped of its supporting features.
View ArticleAndrew Hartman
The metaphor of war works from the assumption that there is no consensus, that there never was agreement to begin with.
View ArticleThe Wisconsin Blues
"Meet the state’s workforce needs” is a dangerous misreading of what it means for universities to provide a public benefit.
View ArticleThe Future – Marc Augé / Heroes – Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
Neither Augé nor Bifo wants the future to be a dodge, and nor should we.
View Articleglo: Lauri Stallings and Mary Virginia Coleman
glo has this great persistence to it. I would probably be put on fire if I ask any less of myself, the world, human nature, the human condition --- no one would hang around.
View ArticleHarraga – Boualem Sansal
The canon of world literature should not just reflect a liberal-humanist position.
View ArticleThe Numero Group: Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley
We’ve had a manifest destiny mindset since the beginning. Our goal is to be the largest AND best independent catalog company in the world, which means making left turns at right turn only intersections.
View ArticleMartin Munro
Ultimately I am interested in Caribbean writing for itself, on its own terms. I am interested in it because it is interesting.
View ArticleThe Roar of Morning – Tip Marugg
The Roar of Morning is quite anti-climactic --- in a digressive and descriptive mode it falls well short of self-knowledge or it fails to intimate truths, those buried umbilical cords, that an...
View ArticleJoshua Bloom
Well, you know, nothing succeeds like success. Why do the Young Lords and the Red Guard and the Young Patriots and everybody else model themselves after the Party? Because they were super influential....
View ArticleJoshua Bloom (pt 2)
I think at a fundamental level, that’s the first thing for understanding the Party. The Party was about people trying to challenge the oppressive conditions that they faced and not being able to do it...
View ArticleFriedrich Nietzsche: Edu-hater
Why offer a set of reforms when your goal is to tear down the whole system of values upon which your current society is built?
View Article20 4 420: Irie Edition
I spoke of the exodus and of the repatrination. I quoted Prince Far-I: ‘We’re moving out of Babylon/ One destination, ina Ithiopia …’, I quoted. ‘Ithiopia, the tyrants are falling/ Ithiopia, Britain...
View ArticleŽiga Virc
Paradoxically one way to cover a conspiracy is to present it as a conspiracy theory and count on the fact that it will not be taken seriously.
View ArticleRosalie Knecht
The default world of literary fiction is a very professional class, with occasional sprinkles of They Closed the Mill and Now We're All on OxyContin. I wanted to be more matter of fact about...
View ArticleCia Rinne
I often have to think about Brecht: “Ah, what an age it is / When to speak of trees is almost a crime / For it is a kind of silence about injustice!”
View ArticleJohn Kaag
I think that understanding a particular philosophical position means that you try your best to understand the particular geographical and cultural space it emerges from.
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I think it's safe to say that, at this moment, where we find ourselves now, we need good reggae more than ever.
View ArticleStuart Hall’s Voice – David Scott
For several generations to come Stuart Hall’s voice will remain a key part of conversations on the left.
View ArticleChristopher Newfield
We talk a lot about the limits of critique. I’m more worried about the absence of critique. I mean institutional critique, including self-critique. That’s how professions get out of blind alleys and...
View ArticleChristopher Newfield (part 2)
University decline is like climate change. It has multiple causes... [and] each cause works slowly enough to allow most people to stay in denial about their effects.
View Article20 4 420: Irie Edition
Last year on this date I claimed, "I think it’s safe to say that, at this moment, where we find ourselves now, we need good reggae more than ever." Plus ça change....
View ArticleDana Villa
Like Max Weber, I think it’s dishonest and somewhat cheesy to use the lecture platform to voice one’s own political leanings. Students deserve better than to be harangued or have their liberal or...
View ArticleImani Perry
By virtue of being the child of a migrant, Lorraine Hansberry understood something deep about all these spaces that were supposed to be hopeful.
View ArticleMalcolm Harris
It’s fun to see people talk about revolution seriously, because they can’t imagine anything else anymore and it’s starting to enter the consciousness.
View ArticleA Marxist Education – Wayne Au
The overdetermination of education as a moral endeavor is rife both within the profession and in public and political discourse.
View ArticleStanley Corngold
Did Congress know that as a result of Sputnik we were going to have a deconstruction-mad America?
View ArticleTim Ingold
For me the great thing about anthropology – and the reason I remain an anthropologist – lies in this freedom that it grants its practitioners to roam intellectually.
View ArticleYelena Moskovich
I love stories where people go to hell, and obviously this novel is my contribution to that literature.
View ArticleReinhold Martin
I’ve tried to think about the university as something to be protected and looked after, and for that very reason, also as the object of our most unrelenting critique.
View ArticleJack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas – Robert Trammell
Dallas in particular, makes weirdos, the truth of whose identities are more fruitfully explored at a bar stool than in a congressional commission.
View ArticleSophus Helle
Gilgamesh is like a more complex version of a Rorschach test, a literary kaleidoscope that you can turn many ways and see so many patterns within. What you pick out often says a lot about you.
View Article20 4 420: Irie Edition
In the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.”
View ArticleJay Hammond
An album based on a novel about a 2020’s apocalypse written in the 1990’s resonated with listeners in ways that I couldn’t have imagined when I started writing the songs many years ago.
View ArticleFandom: The Next Generation – ed. Bridget Kies and Megan Connor
As reboots, remakes, universe extensions, and homages populate more and more of the cultural landscape, a whole set of turf battles comes along with them.
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The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. We used to invoke the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, “Enjoy...
View ArticleTrust and Faith: Lars Iyer
There was, for a time, genuine class mobility—jobs for people who really didn’t expect them, who pursued their studies out of burning interest—out of trust and faith in what they did not know.
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