In Thessaloniki: This bank is French-owned. Stand-off: police attack social center (video still). Heat conspired with exhaustion to make the train ride from Thessaloniki to Athens seem cruelly extenuated. We could only blame ourselves. We’d stayed up all the previous … Continue reading “Notes from Europe: from Thessaloniki to Athens”
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History is what the Present is made of
Michael MandibergAn Interview with Matthew Frye Jacobson.
Michael Mandiberg: So tell us about the Historian’s Eye project…
Matthew Frye Jacobson: This started for me back in about 2007-2008. I was trying to think about different ways of getting intellectual work out in the world, continuous with all the writing I’ve done but in a different register. Read more
Paint the Town Rouge, 17 November 2009
Richard KimSave the date!OR Books invites you to PAINT THE TOWN ROUGE!A party to celebrate the publication of GOING ROUGESarah Palin — An American NightmareEdited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed Tuesday November 17th, 20097 till 10 pm The Gates290 Eight … Continue reading “Paint the Town Rouge, 17 November 2009”
CFP: Movement Politics
Michael RalphThis special issue of Social Text will examine discourses of physical debility and social mobility in concert with social movement politics, broadly construed. The broader rubric of disability is an especially apt lens through which to launch a political agenda, … Continue reading “CFP: Movement Politics”