The Murkiness of the Peruvian Lockdown
Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers) have had to leave…
Tag: Terror
Gefährliche Wüste. Mauretaniens anderer Umgang mit dem Jihadismus.
Mauretanien setzte im vergangenen Jahrzehnt im Kampf gegen religiösen Extremismus nicht allein auf Sicherheitskräfte, sondern auch auf Kooperation mit der Bevölkerung und religiösen Autoritäten. Kann …
Der Stoff, aus dem Gewaltfantasien sind
Nach den Anschlägen von Halle und Hanau steht die AfD in der Kritik, die geistige Munition für solche Taten zu liefern. Doch was genau macht ihre Rhetorik so…
#Fanatismus – Zur Sprengkraft eines wiederkehrenden Begriffs
Seit den Anschlägen von 9/11 wird der Fanatismus immer wieder als analytische Kategorie bemüht. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem religiösen Fanatismus. Doch das Schlagwort erweist sich als…
Pantomime Terror
This book is about storytelling and music video – well, also politics and terror, performance and television. HUTNYK_PANTOMIME TERROR The book tunes into music in three acts. I…
Prisoners of Love
Read the whole thing from Beyond Borders here: Prisoners of Love
Touro-terror-ists
Good to see Terror and the Tour appear (in 2016 – I’m a little slow) in Liminalities journal and give Peter Phipps and Malcolm Crick a deserved nod, since…
Turkey.
Gah. Still. No. Change. >Subject: Call for solidarity for the academics for peace on trial Dear colleagues, Our colleagues in Turkey are facing incredible repression under a populist…
Red Tape – Local/Global Culture Visual
Video of a talk with Chris Pinney, Rian Hughes and others http://redtape.rca.ac.uk/2012_02.html Local/Global: The role of culture in the creation and reception of visual communication Performing Art L…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, October 9, 2017
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Collusion @collusion #collusion #foreigninterference
Important to read Dan Glazebrook and Sukant Chandan as they take apart the British ‘foreign policy’ machinations that help no-one here or there: https://danglazebrook.com/ https://danglaze…
This is what a revolution looks like – ahem, slash and burn editing
A dump post for bits cut from a manuscript. So yes, I will not be talking about Bababababadiouuuuu. But leave it here in case I need to retrieve…
Security Theatre
This phrase was used on the BBC world service a few times yesterday in reference to the ban on laptops and other devices from some airports on some…
Begum Jaan – trailer (remake of Rajkahini, রাজকাহিনী)
For those in need of an alternative to Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, in April 2017 we will get the Hindi film Begum Jaan, I hope soon also for a UK…
Saibaba ‘given’ life = court takes life from a nice guy in awful #repressive state anti #maoist trumped up show trial.
One of Indian Judicial Systems Most Shameful Decisions since 1947 : DU professor GN Saibaba and four others get life sentence for ‘Maoist links’ Democracy and Class Struggle…
Pantomime terrorism hits Sweden
Here’s SCROTUS warning us of the pantomime terrorism situation in Sweden. The double speak bubbles capture his discourse with uncanny accuracy. People may think this is kids stuff,…
Fear, Fire, and Solidarity in New Orleans
David Beriss Someone tried to burn down the Flaming Torch restaurant last week. The restaurant, located in my neighborhood in New Orleans, is a French bistro that has…
Waiting w/ Serra Hakyemez
with Aneil and Ryan Special Guest: Serra Hakyemez Is waiting political? Can you cut in line at Starbucks during your hectic morning commute? In this episode of TAL…
Zombiiiiieeees Aiiiiiiiiii
Another volume on the horror that keeps giving (accounts of capital and how bad it is – figure people gonna wake up and do owt? Not holding my…
Winston
War criminal notes. Someone scratched out his eyes. Apparently when the note is wet and rubbed with a coin, the ink comes off. Still legal tender – money…
Open doors in Paris: when the private becomes public
sebastiendubey.com by Lucrezia Giordano Home is the private space par excellence. It is a place where people can develop their own micro-society, based on the relationship with a…
Eine differenzierte Sicht auf den IS
Eine Replik auf die Glosse Totschlag und Wissenschaft; sie erschien als Leserkommentar am 2./3. 5. 2015, S. 12 in der Wiener Zeitung. Selbst den dümmsten Kulturwissenschaftlern ist klar, dass die…
‘Hvorfor er der ingen, der har kastet sig over ham?’: Ufattelige krav om børns selvtægt på Utøya
Normalt skriver jeg om ganske andre emner på denne blog, nemlig køn og seksualitet. Når jeg alligevel griber pennen, er det, fordi enkelte udtalelser i kølvandet på tr…