Lawz
In what’s become a springtime ritual, the Austin Police Department last month shot and killed a black man in East Austin, this time an eighteen-year-old who was sleeping in his car at the time. (more…)
Girls in revolt
Below is among my favorite of the many insightful, and beautiful, communiques to come out of the actions in Greece over the past month. (more…)
Harvey on neoliberal freedom
A slab of draft words from the thing I’m working on. Comments welcome/encouraged. This needs to be cut, as it’s too long, is supposed to be only a transitional section, and is kinda boring. But the last is Harvey’s fault, not mine. Heh. (more…)
All about Omar
Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been preparing for and having guests, plus too much work. But I did manage to submit the following essay proposal, which was positively received. Now I’ve got to write the thing. Eeeek! (more…)
Tuesday Faulkner: The value of women
It is a well-known fact that the worst victims of the recent exacerbation of the international division of labor are women. They are the true surplus army of labor in the current conjuncture. (more…)
Tuesday Faulkner: She sells sanctuary
(Since I’ve been reading the proprietor of Yoknapatawpha County a lot lately, I’m instituting a new feature: Tuesday Faulkner. But please, as with most things around here, don’t expect any regularity.)
Under English common law, people seeking immunity from prosecution could find refuge in a church, where they could safely stay for up to forty days, after which time they had to declare either their innocence, in which case they would face a trial, or their guilt, which earned them eternal banishment from the country. Both the sacred place of refuge and the legal process became known as sanctuary, which of course derives from the Latin word sanctus, meaning holy. Sanctuary, then, was the place and the process in which the accused were afforded a respite from the law, in which the holy entity of the church suspended the state’s juridical functioning. (more…)
Creative class
There’s a lot to like about Austin’s culture and politics. There’s also a lot to dislike. This article definitely falls in the latter category. The blend of provincialism, boosterism, and social entrepreneuralism contained in it is, I think (probably provincially), unique to Austin. It’s amazing how proudly amenable to neoliberalism hipsters and creatives are. And yes, a few of those comments are mine.
Election grid
(more…)We’ve been in election mode for some time now. Elections are not a particular locale, nor a particular day in the calendar. They are more like a grid that affects the way we understand and perceive things. Everything is mapped back on this grid and gets warped as a result. The particular conditions of the elections today have elevated the usual level of bullshit.– Gilles Deleuze
The state of the revolution
As a sort of followup to the previous post comes this bit of news: (more…)
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