June 2010
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V£R$O →
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lukesimcoe:
Remember when Verso forcibly took down all its books from AAAARG? Well…
Heyooooo
I’d really like to see these ePub format, for those of us with eReaders who can’t figure out XML.
Whoa whoa whoa. The motherlode of theory, it is here.
Yowza. Heavy on the Zizek, there.
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Experiences of Trangendered Profs a Case Study in... →
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ouyangdan:
In an excerpt published in the Australian newspaper The Age, The Hidden Brain author Shankar Vedantam discusses the different post-transition experiences of transgendered Stanford professors Ben Barres and Joan Roughgarden. Unsurprisingly, they paint a depressing picture of the prevalence of sexism even in the supposedly egalitarian world of university...
May 2010
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“[O]rganisms and organismic, holistic politics depend on metaphors of rebirth and...”
– Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”
Oh my god, do I wish I understood this essay better. Because I am pretty sure that it’s articulating basically everything I believe in this world.
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Best SATC2 review. Kind of genius. →
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(via yestimgunn)
“In this absolute vacuum of plot, a shadow narrative fills the void — the story of four damned immortals, condemned to live in a couture-drunk fugue state by a extradimensional puppet master (who may or may not be New York City itself). It’s not much different from Dark City.”
It reminds me of the similarly glorious io9 review of Transformers 2: Revenge of the...
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“But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby...”
– J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
This book is kind of wrecking me.
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The same insurance policy is $70 in California but...
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jayparkinsonmd:
An individual can purchase health insurance in California with a $5,000 deductible for as low as $70 a month. That is, if you qualify. California can deny you coverage based on age and pre-existing conditions. In New York, an individual can purchase that same $5,000 deductible policy for $324 a month.
Why the difference?
In California, insurers can...
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“Roy Bean, appointed as a judge in the state of Texas in the late 19th century,...”
– Chinaman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via dkeen) (via readmorewikipedia) (via pleaseshowmehowtolive) Wow. (via notemily) Tell me again why exclusionary language is unimportant?
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“He had heard such stuff so many times that her words meant very little to him....”
– Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (trans. Geoffrey Wall) (via novazembla)
This is such a beautiful passage that I still remember it from when I had to read the book for class in 1995. And there is not a lot I remember from that long ago.
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*LOST spoilers*
whatwillsuffice:
Why am I surprised that Lost’s “secret” is that a gigantic P must be stuck in a gigantic V to keep the world stable?
I LOL’d at Jack having to plug up the island’s giant stone vagina with a giant stone penis to stop all that evil red stuff from getting out. But it was doubly offensive, because it was also an instance of the show’s obnoxious...
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fauxrealtho replied to your video: ilykadamen: I know most everybody has seen this…
OMG, let’s get those teal shoes with the stacked heel.
They are here… and they’re not three hundred fucking dollars, but they ain’t cheap, either.
Sometimes I think grad school is a terrible idea. Maybe I would prefer a lifestyle in which I work a job I hate for just enough hours a...
Think The Gulf Spill Is Bad? Check Out Nigeria. →
abbyjean:
Here’s some alarming perspective on big disastrous spills. Over the past 50 years, Shell and other companies have spilled an estimated 1.5 million tons of oil into the Niger Delta ecosystem. That’s the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez accident per year, every single year, for five decades.
And this isn’t just some long-gone problem that’s now been fixed. Last year, Shell reported...
Guardian: Comment is free: Why are US doctors... →
meloukhia:
The AAP’s casual comparison of “nicking” of girls’ genitalia to ear piercing demonstrates just how far from the international framework the organisation currently stands. “Nicking” cannot be pulled out of context and must be understood within the larger gender politics of controlling women’s bodies and sexual rights.
Indigenous grassroots groups and activists, including...
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“I like to believe I have written interesting protagonists, antagonists, and...”
– Pearson Moore
It would be cruel, I believe, to editorialize.
(via thecurvature)
HA.
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why can I not find any pictures
of Drew Barrymore’s hair in Whip It? It is basically my platonic hair ideal. Rainbows are where it’s at.
I did find this picture, though. How amazing is that dress? And I think I like her hair here, too.
in the future when all's well
Me: I'm going to dye my hair now.
Boyfriend: Ooh. Are you going to dye it... purple? Or green? Greeny-purple?
Me: YES. [No. Tragically, I still work for an insurance agency for the next seven weeks.]
-pause-
Me: [realizing] Oh baby!
Boyfriend: Oh yes?
Me: When I'm a grad student, I can have funny-colored hair!
Boyfriend: Yes you can!
Me: Maybe I can have... rainbow-colored hair!
Boyfriend: And a hawk that perches on your shoulder!
Me: YESSSSS
Boyfriend: FREEDOM
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sometimes family is okay
My sixteen year old nephew just started a blog, and it is precious. His first post is all about his school day. Apparently his English class is reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, which he describes as “pretty good” but “kinda weird and impractical.” I’m not sure what this means, but I sort of love it. Although maybe I don’t, because I suspect it’s...
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in which i unleash some righteous fucking anger at...
To the landlady whose apartment we can’t afford to take because she reneged on our original agreement about move-in costs: If you aren’t in a position to do without an extra $1,000 during the month of July, there is no way that you can actually have believed that a couple of grad students who are in the process of paying for a cross-country move could come up with that much extra...
smart tart: France has its first "burka rage"... →
almas88:ahypertrophiedmemory:
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This is so revolting. Because I have to get back to writing my thesis, I’ll keep this post short. Throughout their presence in Algeria (1830-1962), the French colonizers realized that women were at the center of their battle with the Algerians. From…
