Lori Cole
The questionnaire punctures the bravado of the manifesto, which is such a singular, almost bold, optimistic doctrine or document. The questionnaire allows room for doubt, ambivalence, dissent, and debate.
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.
View Article20 4 420: Irie Edition
I think it's safe to say that, at this moment, where we find ourselves now, we need good reggae more than ever.
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