I just spent the morning crafting an email to Vanity Fair's editor. Yes, yes, i know - i'm exposing something terrible - this academic indulges in a subscription to Vanity Fair. But in my November issue, there was a tiny little side bar article about...
Our nation-centered view of citizenship can only comprehend the predicament of minoritarian ‘belonging’ as a problem of ontology – a question of belonging to a race, a gender, a class, a generation becomes kind of a ‘second nature,’ a primordial identification, an inheritance of tradition,...
…the shared condition of precariousness leads not to reciprocal recognition, but to a specific exploitation of targeted populations, of lives that are not quite lives, cast as “destructible” and “ungrievable.” Such populations are “lose-able” or can be forfeited, precisely because they are framed as being...
I've passed. Four weeks of non-stop writing, thinking, scribbling and worrying culminating in three hours of my stuttering, stammering, going blank, scribbling notes, laughing nervously and generally willing time to speed up (oh worm-hole, where were you?!), and i got four signatures. I promptly wandered out,...
I have never worked so hard for only 9 pages. I cleaned my desk two days ago. Then i got back to work. What you can't see are the piles under the desk. And the ones in front of the bookcase...