February 2012
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January 2012
6 posts
Beautiful Equations
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GREGORY LEON MILLER and WALTON MUYUMBA on the recent work of Percival Everett. Illustration of Percival Everett © Joe Linton
GREGORY LEON MILLER Identity Crisis Percival Everett Assumption Graywolf Press, October 2011. 225 pp. Percival Everett Erasure Graywolf Press, October 2011 (orig. 2001). 272 pp. Over the course of more than 20 books, Percival Everett has produced as...
December 2011
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November 2011
2 posts
The Things We Carry
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JOCELYN HEANEY on teaching in a community college and the talk about higher education. Soldier Reading a Book © JoAnn S. Makinano
Marjorie Garber The Use and Abuse of Literature Pantheon Books, 2011. 283 pp. Geoffrey Galt Harpham The Humanities and the Dream of America University of Chicago Press, 2011. 256 pp. Mike wouldn’t sit with his back to the door: “I can never be...
Our Zombies, Ourselves
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ALIX OHLIN on Colson Whitehead and the undead. Reclaimed Sewer Pipe © Kelly Barrie 2010. Digital C-Print Courtesy of the artist and Maloney Fine Art.
Colson Whitehead Zone One Doubleday, October 2011. 272 pp. In Zuccotti Park on Halloween, protesters dressed up as zombies in suits, eyes vacant and deranged, fake blood and money dripping from their lips. A directive had...
September 2011
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August 2011
6 posts
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July 2011
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June 2011
12 posts
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“Here, in this prelude panel discussion to the Internet as Playground and Factory conference, Tiziana Terranova presents a brief and excellent summery of how contemporary Marxist theory—particularly, Italian Marxist theories of socially-produced value—is useful in understanding the social and economic conditions of the Web.”
(via A Marxist Theory of the Web » OWNI.eu, News,...
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May 2011
10 posts
This article investigates the history of contemporary Christian Zionism in the...
– (maybe I will get to read this later #postrapturereading)
Rammy M. Haija - The Armageddon Lobby: Dispensationalist Christian Zionism and the Shaping of US Policy Towards Israel-Palestine - Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal 5:1
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METALOCALYPSE: We’re Gonna D… The Yaneemango give Dethklok their ritual drug before they start playing their music (via Adult Swim Video : Metalocalypse : We’re Gonna Die on Yopo)
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I’d never been a in a place where black people played so much Led Zeppelin.
– The End of Moe’s Bar in Fort Greene | CITY OF STRANGERS
I realize it’s absurd to say this about an event that supposedly involves people...
– The Rapture of Daylight Saving Time | Retort
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