“Vampires thus illustrate the relationship of black culture to the dominant culture in America, the blues, funk, techno, and hip hop, have all entered into mainstream society, but they do so in a way that is often disconnected from the individuals and the living experiences which shaped them”
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Julia Eckert writes here on how fascist "rituals enabl[e] people to join into the suprematist project, and to prefiguratively produce it"
agreed for sure.
i thought it was Josh?: 'Josh nabbed four Oscar nominations for his solo effort “Marty Supreme,” while Benny came up empty-handed for his “The Smashing Machine.”'
Josh, rather, right?
It's been a long time coming. After several years of revisions, my book Emotional Filipinos is coming out on April 15th. Please share and retweet! It would really mean a lot to me. Preorder sales available here: ugapress.org/978082037545...
What’s up Bangkok
And now a review of it: ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktim...
Matan Kaminer provides a personal review of Balthasar's "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left," a book that feels particularly vital given the "genocide in Palestine... and supercharged McCarthyism in the US."
www.at-commons.com/pub/c058ru1q...
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Excited to dig into this one! Congrats to FB
In Burma, one may lose rights they had at one point... and then never get them back. Rights aren't inalienable. I suggest this has something to do with conceptions of (political) personhood and intersubjective / collective understandings of the affordances of the Burmese social milieu [3/3]
whereas Americans describe "our" rights as ours even when they're not delivered (you have to "fight for *your* right to party," as the Beastie Boys are fond of reminding us), this same grammar of possession tends not to attend Burmese descriptions of rights. [2/3]
this is particularly interesting essay for me, as I found in my fieldwork in Myanmar that people tend to talk about "rights", if they do at all, in fundamentally different ways than ppl do in Anglo-American contexts, and that this difference pivots on alienability [1/3]
today in Ghostly Lessons we have two contributions considering the treatment of human remains:
* Thiago Barbosa and Amanda Domingues on human remains identification methods www.at-commons.com/pub/x2v2mu1j...
* Trevor Engel on how museums hold bodies www.at-commons.com/pub/bi2wxnk4...
The many authors of this forum have worked very hard to generate important insights into the very hot topic of haunting (and, tbc, they developed it well before AAA announced haunting would be this year’s meeting theme)
I comment here on the USA's ambiguous relationship with Myanmar (and the so-called developing world) more generally, including: "As the US continues to fund and support Israel’s genocide in Gaza today, it seems nothing less than absurd to recommend more US engagement in places around the world."
Yeah I got that. And you’re right it’s a totally different stat! Probabilistic reasoning rather than Bayesian, we could say? If I wanted probabilities I would watch, shudder, baseball. The whole point of good sports is that the mean changes! “It’s why you play the games.”
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Those stats are dumb. Sometimes the mean is not to be regressed to!
[But the fact that JB is the leader in the playoffs in offensive plus minus AND dead last in defensive plus minus is a wild stat that I wholly support (per Michael Pina’s Ringer article).]
AI here thinking that I run an inter generational hardware store in Duluth with my non existent male progeny
one could have watched that amazing game yesterday and just watched Dunn. I don’t think I’ve ever seen as intuitive or creative defender as this guy.
watch Dunn's genius here. He digs to help so must recover - which means Murray's about to dust him. But watch what he does next: He’s about to do a spin move to recover as JM drives, but then JM anticipates and steps back + so Dunn never flips his hips! He's playing d with his back to the player!
Easter season.
Dallas crowd during Luka's return: managed to pull off a celebration of their guy AND a biting condemnation of their betrayer (the regime who traded him). The love displayed in the former helped leaven the anger, producing something kinda lovely (or at least it seemed so on TV)
And as a syllabus adjustment
Not Amazon but yes!
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Depending on how this was edited, at the end you can hear the interview get interrupted by a student occupation of the university building I was in there in Paris. Apropos, given the book’s topic.
