Our scorching planetary age results from the conjoined forces of colonial extractivism, fossil capitalism, and postcolonial developmentalism. Public Books and the Asian Labour Review have partnered to...
09.25.2023 Publicbooks.orgOn May 24, 2017, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring September 30 as International Translation Day, commemorating the feast of St Jerome, a multilingual with a mastery o...
09.30.2023 Thedailystar.netQuite a while ago I posted about History of the Present , the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley. It used to be online via R...
09.25.2023 Progressivegeographies.comTheme This academic sum is divided into two parts. The first part covers the relationship between contemporary French novelists and history in various forms: the novel which appropriates history with ...
09.28.2023 Archyworldys.comUnsettle [ən-ˈse-tᵊl] verb to loosen or move from a settled state or condition : make unstable : DISORDER : to perturb or agitate mentally or emotionally : DISCOMPOSE –Merriam-Webster Dictionary JD Pluecker’s original discipline is language: vignettes, poetry, critical art writing, and translation. In 2018 they began a studio practice as another language — a way of working in which “objects would function as a kind of proxy for language. ” They told me, “I am a writer who uses objects in spaces ...
09.26.2023 Glasstire.comRepetition is so ingrained in our daily existence that we typically overlook it altogether. The clock hands (or digital display) revolve/flip in a predictable repetition; we rise in the mornings and e...
09.25.2023 Popmatters.comRecently, I read Virginia Woolf’s first published novel, The Voyage Out , for the first time. There, I made a discovery: it features a character named Clarissa Dalloway. This encounter initially provo...
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