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The Academy, Sports, and OWS
While reading through Umberto Eco’s Travels In Hyperreality I came across an essay called “Sports Chatter,” written in 1969, which struck me by the wording of the first paragraph: There is one thing...
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End of the Semester Thoughts
Well, it’s only a few days after being done with finals, and I’m still recuperating. My first semester at the New School was really great – I was fortunate to be in a unique place in a unique time, and...
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Borrowing Networks
It may be silly, but this cartoon draws its humor from some of the problems I mentioned in my last post. Can people fight fire with fire? From Stephanie McMillan’ Minimum Security (also the author of...
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Occupy The Super Bowl?
Remember what I said (or Eco said) about protesting and sports? There is one thing that – even if it were considered essential – no student movement or urban revolt or global protest or what have you...
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Naturalization and Questioning the Codes We Live By
Last Wednesday night the Youth Rights Media staff and I took a group of students from my Media Literacy class to a talk by Shafiq R. F. Abdussabur. The author of ”A Black Man’s Guide to Law Enforcement...
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Tim Kreider’s Pain
This quote struck me, as well as this image from ᔥTim Kreider, submitted by Carolyn Ewald. Those are live pigs – and something about this image speaks to me about everything that wrong with our society...
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Prometheus and Post-Humans
I saw Ridley Scott’s Prometheus with my wife this afternoon. I’d been looking forward to it for awhile, simply because the motion picture industry rarely puts out any decent science fiction. Space/the...
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Totally Alone in the Universe
I saw this tonight, which highlights an insignificant something that has been bugging me for awhile: While we wait to establish contact, one technique we can use back on Earth is an equation that...
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