In Columbus, Ohio Students United Against Apartheid staged a demonstration outside the building where the Ohio State University trustees were meeting Friday. Students were objecting to the university’s $7 million worth of investments in U.S. companies that do business in South Africa. [May 4, 1985] Harvard must not remain on the wrong side of history, […]
From Nicht Versöhnt to Moses und Aron, one idea predominates, entirely contained in this title: not reconciled. Non-reconciliation: neither the union nor the divorce, neither the whole body (to preserve, to regret), nor the bias of desintegration, chaos (Nietzsche: one must desintegrate the universe, lose respect for all), but their double possibility. Straub and Huillet basically start from a […]
The City is divided by a river called You Can’t Step Into Me Twice. The two banks thus created are the Left and the Right Hemispheres. One is considered to be evil and the other good. Everything inside the bodies of the inhabitants also comes in pairs. They have two eyes, nostrils, lungs, brains, hands, […]
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I could go on to the ‘trinkets’ sold by market traders and street peddlers. But that would be a whole other story. – Lina Bo Bardi What gets lost in translation? How might improvised actions and conversations, as well as collective thought experiments, invite us to engage with the seemingly unimportant/invisible structural and atmospheric aspects […]
You marvel at the dragon its scales used for shields and ask how – if there is only one dragon who protects their world at the movie’s end they came by the scales? He explains: ‘They were shed’ “The Ingenuousness of the Child” – cf. Anarchist Education and the Modern School Each weekend he joins […]
Yes, very much so. After years of fighting with the ravages of oppression in my private and public life, I found myself within a privileged university context. The dissonance I experienced during my beginning years as a Latina, working-class, female professor in an all-Anglo department is a feature of junior faculty life that is seldom […]