Browsing Archive February, 2017
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Editorial Note 0
Introduction to Issue #7
I write this introduction to Issue # 7 in the state of melancholy most of our readers share, or have experienced, since November 8, 2016. One truly appalling dimension of ...
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Essay 0
Long Lasting Days
By MINA KARAVANTA These days I take the long way to work, past the old international airport of Athens, the “Hellinikon”, located on Poseidonos Avenue washed by the ...
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Unlovable Neighbors: The living architecture of my Philadelphia neighborhood
By MARCO ROTH The old man stands motionless, feet shoulder-width apart, atop the steam grate at the back of the convenience store on the 13th street side. He ...
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Interview 2
Critique’s Persistence: An Interview with Sianne Ngai
By MIKKEL BOLT RASMUSSEN and DEVIKA SHARMA This interview appeared in Danish in Kultur & Klasse (Culture & Class). Rasmussen & Sharma [R & S]: Your books Ugly ...
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How to Win Your Grad Union
By ANDREA CROW In early 2014, I got a phone call late at night from a fellow Columbia Ph.D. student telling me that a group of graduate workers ...
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Media 1
Life Chances: Orange is the New Black and Drama of Privilege
By SEAN McCANN White oblivion about… privilege acts as a psychological prison system that costs white people heavily in terms of preventing human development. Walking obliviously through our ...
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Essay 0
The Original Pussyhat?
By BRAD EVANS Of the thousands of demonstrators marching the day after the inauguration, a good percentage were wearing what Rod Dreher of The American Conservative decided to call, ...
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Essay 0
Anti-Semitism?
By BRUCE ROBBINS This essay was first delivered as a talk on a panel called “New Classroom Boundaries” at the Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia in January. ...
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Essay 0
Ending of the American Century
By JAMES LIVINGSTON So much for the horror of that neoliberal bond between Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton. I hope your vote wasn’t cast as a result of such ...
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Video 0
How Shlomo Sand Stopped Being a Jew (Trailer)
Trailer for the upcoming film by Bruce Robbins. ...
