Browsing Archive November, 2016
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Editorial Note 0
Introduction to Issue #6
We’re back with a new issue. Ba da boom. We planned on one big feature for the issue which didn’t pan out. It was to be an interview ...
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World Literature Needs World Philosophy: Buddhism and Kipling
By AVI ALPERT The development of the concept of world literature is one of the great accomplishments of literary study over the past few decades. Not only has ...
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The “(anti)virus” in Europe: conjuring “refugees” and “migrants”
By CHLOE HARALAMBOUS On 18 September, a group of Greek “patriots” congregated in the main square by the harbour of the Aegean island of Lesvos. Summoned by cadres ...
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Smaller and Less Beautiful: Refusal Aesthetics in the Contemporary Novel
By ANASTATIA CURLEY Pay attention to what contemporary novelists say about novels, and you might start to wonder why they’re writing them at all. Karl Ove Knausgaard writes ...
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TED and Trump
By MINOU ARJOMAND Pop quiz: which of the following quotes are taken from speeches by Donald Trump? We are essentially trying to build a more awesome government,for the ...
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Kufr Aqab and the ‘Cleansing’ of Jerusalem
By NEIL HERTZ I had paid little attention to the village of Kufr Aqab when I was living in Ramallah in the winter and spring of 2011. It ...
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Book Review 1
Does New York Know?: A Review of Ingrid Burrington’s Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure
By MICHAEL RUBENSTEIN Review of Ingrid Burrington, Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2016. When in 2006 the Republican ...
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Seeing from Scratch: A Paleo Diet
By RICHARD DIENST “Learn to see before learning to read.” — Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialisme (2011) Do we really need to learn how to see? We usually assume ...
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Podemos Stumbles
By JOHN McCLURE The Long Campaign For many progressive-minded Spaniards, the last couple of years have been a time of hope. Disgusted by the Socialist government’s capitulation to ...
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Returning to Gompers after the New Labor History
By ROSANNE CURRARINO Samuel Gompers has gotten a bad rap from historians. In the last thirty years he has been called: self-serving, autocratic, bitter, imperious, an over-fed fat cat, a ...
