Paolo Virno’s A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life is a short book, but it casts a long shadow. Behind it looms the entire history of the labor movement and its heretical wing, Italian … Continue reading “We, the Multitude”
Issue: Issue 082
Time and Girmit
sudesh mishraAt some point between March 1879, when the first cargo of 463 recruits was shipped off to the South Seas, and January 1920, when the last of the bonded servants saw freedom, girmit entered the idiom of Indian workers transported … Continue reading “Time and Girmit”
Deep in the Blood of Time: WITNESSING TRAINS AND THE LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
sikivu hutchinsonFrom the tracks on Marmion Way and Avenue Fifty-Nine, families have gathered together behind the gates of their houses at the end of a stifl ing Friday afternoon, ignoring the splintering advance of the Gold Line train; the drone, the … Continue reading “Deep in the Blood of Time: WITNESSING TRAINS AND THE LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY”
Historical Experience in The Harder They Come
prakash youngerWhat does a classic American novel of the 1920s have to do with a Jamaican cult fi lm of the 1970s? I offer the last page of Gatsby as a vivid exemplifi cation of a particular structure of temporal experience, … Continue reading “Historical Experience in The Harder They Come”
"This Is What It Means to SAG in South Africa"
leola a. johnsonIn the summer of 2000, in the middle of a strike by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) against the producers of television commercials, Ridley Scott Associates (RSA) took out an … Continue reading “"This Is What It Means to SAG in South Africa"”
Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION AND THE POLITICS OF RACE AND AUTHENTICITY
nicole r. fleetwood“We’re in a fishbowl!” Sarah exclaimed. We all agreed, as passersby looked in at us with curiosity. Our small group of youth participants and adult educators, organized by the Media Education Center (MEC), a community based media production organization located … Continue reading “Mediating Youth: COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION AND THE POLITICS OF RACE AND AUTHENTICITY”
Sexing the Teacher: VOYEURISTIC PLEASURE IN THE AMY GEHRING SEX PANIC
sheila l. cavanaghNews headlines about the Amy Gehring sex panic read as follows: “Lusty Lessons: Ontario Teacher’s Fate Now Lies in Hands of UK Jury”; “Boozy Teacher Had Alley Sex with Two Underage Boys and Bedded a Third”; “Teacher Too Drunk to … Continue reading “Sexing the Teacher: VOYEURISTIC PLEASURE IN THE AMY GEHRING SEX PANIC”