Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz
I’m taking the journalistic piece at Wired seriously primarily because the amazing Prof. Biella Coleman is cited within the first few graphs. See Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz | Threat Level...
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thoughts
1) bringing this space back online for some public thinking (seems like a nice summer-time writing exercise) 2) linking this blog to some non-pseudonymous spaces (which might raise traffic, but also...
View Articlereporting on things
Possibly already on folks’ radars, but both the NYTimes and the Atlantic are running new multi-part series of possible interest to folks here: At the Times: Unlocked: Inside New Jersey’s Halfway...
View ArticlePrisons news links
Propublica has a nice roundup posted of excellent prisons reporting. Good pieces to use for teaching, methinks. Also, in the times today, reporting on Texas state prisons and heat-related deaths.
View Articlefilms and teaching into to political theory
I am well aware that this is previously trodden ground, but I’m working on my own list, in preparation for a pretty serious re-vamp of my intro/foundations to political theory course next year… I’m...
View Articlexcphilosophy
something really interesting, smart, and downright amazing is happening over xcphilosophy.org. A great manifesto posted, a reading list, and now this thought-provoking post on “why still philosophy?”...
View Articleon tenure
back on May 28th, I wrote: 4) I wish I had tenure already. a much longer post is in the works on this thought, but I would like to revise this position without explanation: 4) I wish that academic...
View Articlemoar penguins
Penguins received their annual exams today: vine.co/v/bX7qJ7DXuwa — Anthony Brown (@anthonybrown) February 28, 2013
View Articleremixing adorno
from Educated Ice over at xcphilosophy.org, a positively scathing and also moving reworking of the first aphorism of Minima Moralia, called (appropriately) For T.W. Adorno. Quoted in full: For T.W....
View Articlethe souls of white folk
“Is not this the record of present America? Is not this its headlong progress? Are we not coming more and more, day by day, to making the statement, ‘I am white,’ the one fundamental tenet of our...
View Articlequick thoughts on John Oliver’s recent piece on prisons
As I watch the (admittedly humorous and well written) recent piece by John Oliver on mass incarceration pop up all over my facey-space and twitter whatsits, there is much to be praised about it...
View Articleon “alternatives” to prison
So, a really smart friend of mine asked the following on facebook, in response to my last post on reform vs. abolition: “I’m new to the field, so excuse my naivete. But what is the alternative to...
View Articlelet us all speak as plainly…
“Such a light was the soul of John Brown. He was simple, exasperatingly simple; unlettered, plain, and homely. No casuistry of culture or of learning, of well-being or tradition moved him in the...
View ArticleJohn Brown was right
“Today at last we know: John Brown was right.” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that in 1909. We have never been lacking moments in which, “Today at last we know” has been true. We have already had, it seems, far...
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